On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:45 AM, Mullin9 wrote:

>
> I have a Beige Powermac G3,
> Is there a way to add the FireWire 400 card in the PCI slot,
> and boot off an external Hard drive.
>
> Did any Beige G3, ever came with a Firewire 400 built in.

Nope & nope.

The 'bootability' of Firewire , or USB, is determined by when the  
drivers are active.
IF the 'firmware' is recent enough to include those drivers, then  
they can be used to complete the booting process, otherwise, no.

Chuck D.




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