Hey folks, Is there any hardware related reason that a B&W won't boot off an external firewire drive. The drive is 250gig, but since it's external that shouldn't really matter. It's freshly loaded with 10.4.11.
The same drive boots off my gig ether just fine. I've tried two different B&Ws and neither will boot. One doesn't even see the drive, though that may be because it's got a stripped down version of 9.1 on the internal drive. The other runs 10.4.11, sees the drive, but won't boot off it. The drive is for a friend who has had repeated crash/corruption problems with it on his Sawtooth. It's a Seagate SATA drive in an OWC Neptune enclosure. We've tried changing FW ports, cables, enclosures, RAM, and even hard drives (the original was a Seagate SATA 500gig) and now I'm wanting to have him try it for a while on one of my spare machines to see if things clear up, thinking it may be a processor or motherboard issue. Thanks for suggestions. -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Building Calendar: <http://Calendar.SustainableSources.com> Green Real Estate: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/> Straw Bale Registry: <http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/> Books/videos/software: <http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
