Could you boot from a fire wire drive if you used a separate firewire controller card? does the bios' limitation also effect cards that might have their own bios?
No... You can not boot from an external firewire drive on a secondary firewire card with the B&W G3 or the Yikes G4. It is a limitation of the mother board BIOS. The only SCSI card that can a B&W G3 can boot from is the Adaptec 2930CU PCI/SCSI adapter (with the APPLE firmware). If you are hard pressed to boot from an external device your only option is the Adaptec 2930CU. I have one :-) and it works fine. To select different operating systems on different hard drives I prefer to boot from the Mac OS X install CDROM #1 by holding down the "C" key. Bring up the installer menu, and then bring up the start up drive control panel. I can never remember the 8 finger VULCAN MIND GRIP you have to perform on you mac to boot from an alternative drive. "APPLE-CNTL-SHIFT-DELETE-OPTION-6-BKSPACE-P-M-Z-W-ETC-ETC-ETC-ETC" ----------------------------------------- GM, FORD, Chrysler should not be allowed to make cars. INTEL and Microsoft should not be allowed to make computers. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
