On Jun 22, 2009, at 7:23 PM, MacGuy wrote: > > > On Jun 22, 2009, at 4:08 PM, insightinmind wrote: >> >> Have you tried the 3.5 drive elsewhere? (apologies if you state this >> earlier in the thread). > > 2.5 mounted on the desktop via USB, I booted from a leopard volume on > it..all looked ok. Then I connected the 3.5 (which works perfectly in > several other macs/ and enclosures) and it would not even mount. The > drive would spin up.... light comes on, that's it.
About boot-a-bility of external USB drives ... is that OS X (Leopard vrs Tiger) dependent in any way? I thought I read somewhere that USB 2 bootable became good (or was that "became flaky"?) under Leopard, and was not good under Tiger. If so, what OS were you trying to boot from on the 3.5 drive? I'll stop here ... Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
