Kris Tilford wrote:
> On Oct 1, 2008, at 12:45 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.
>
> Yes. You can add any FW400 card and boot OS X from external FW drives
> using XPostFacto 4.0.
>
> The best Firewire cards use the Texas Instruments chipset. Others may
> also work, I'm not aware of any that are unbootable. On the other end,
> the enclosure end, Oxford chipsets are by far the best, and some need
> to be avoided, specifically the GeneSys Logic GL711/811 and the early
> Prolific Logic PL3507. These are flakey and can't boot. Most of the
> enclosures sold by HD manufacturers are bootable and OK.
>
> To boot you'll need to install OS X onto the HD and then use
> XPostFacto to enable FW booting by using the "Helper Disk" option.
> This is done by starting the boot process on an internal HD (called
> the 'helper') and then transferring the boot over to the external HD
> after the Firewire port has initialized. This is done by synchronizing
> the boot software on both drives, the boot software on the helper is
> stored in special invisible files, so you can have another System on
> the drive or partition without messing it up. You should be able to
> boot any version of OS X, but Panther and Tiger run better than
> Jaguar. To effectively run Panther or Tiger you'll need to invest in
> an ATI Radeon video card because of a video bug that effects the
> onboard Rage video. You can also enable Quartz Extreme with a Radeon
> card using PCI Extreme 3.1, which will really speed up some graphics
> operations, I've noticed that scrolling large files such as large
> iTunes libraries is dramatically faster with Quartz Extreme enabled.
>
> You won't have any 1st 8 GB limit on external FW HDs, you can boot a
> 500 GB or 1 TB if you want. The 1st 8 GB partition IS important still,
> the "helper" MUST be within that 1st 8 GB. If you have an internal HD
> larger than 128 GB (the max recognized by a Beige), you can enable the
> entire drive to be recognized and be useable in two ways. The easiest
> is to format the HD with Intech HD Speedtools 3.5 for OS 9 which makes
> the whole HD useable in OS 9.x. Then you can use the Intech Hi-
> Capacity Extension for OS X to enable OS X to see the whole HD. There
> is one problem with this, which is IF you ever boot a CD/DVD or other
> HD System that LACKS the Intech Hi-Cap. extension you can destroy the
> data on the whole HD. The solution is to partition the HD at EXACTLY
> the 128 GB point (131,072 MB) so that if you boot a "normal" system it
> will only have access to that "perfect" 1st 128 GB partition and the
> rest will remain untouched and invisible.
>
> The 2nd way to enable larger HD is by a tweak to the Open Firmware
> that enables larger HDs to be recognized. This is free, but again, for
> safety you'd need to partition at the exact 128 GB point just in case
> the Open Firmware tweak was erased and set to the default state again.
> You can search the G3-5 List archives for "LBA48" and read about this,
> or see this page:
> <http://nanchatte.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/128gb-large-hdd-lba48-support-on-the-g4-cube-with-leopard/
> >
>
> I like booting from Firewire, it's much simpler than messing around
> with this internal large HD support. You could even use a small OEM HD
> inside the Beige with OS 9 installed, and have OS X only on the large
> external FW HD. Should work perfect. If you need help, I can help off-
> list.
>
> > Did any Beige G3, ever came with a Firewire 400 built in.
>
> No.
Thank You for replying
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