So... an unmodified G3 'Smurf' can't boot through either Firewire or USB ports... without XPost Facto tricks. But what about a G3 upgraded with a Sonnet G4 400 Mhz card... can anyone pronounce definitively on that? Just wondering! ...as I would really like to get an external HD to back up everything, as my rig is getting JUST a little long in the tooth (B&W circa 1999-- I believe Rev.1), but upgraded with above Sonnet G4 and lots of other stuff: PCI cards for USB 2.0 and for SCSI peripherals, Radeon 7000 graphics card, 768 MB RAM, Sys. 9.2.2 and Tiger 10.4.6, 55 GB internal HD... and it all (touch wood!) works very well-- even Photoshop CS2... altho' Quark 7 runs slow as molasses, so I tend to use Qrk 5 instead... I do job-related backups daily, but would like to have EVERYTHING on a bootable external, for 'if and when' it goes down! Can anyone say for sure about that?
On Jul 30, 6:22 pm, "Jorjo :)" <[email protected]> wrote: > The B/W can´t boot from FW/USB Devices.. > just read the B/W Profile in > LEMhttp://lowendmac.com/ppc/blue-white-power-mac-g3.html > "As on the iMac, USB has practically replaced ADB, but Apple left one > ADB port on the B&W G3 for legacy peripherals. The addition of > FireWire provides a fast alternative to the missing SCSI. (SCSI PCI > cards are readily available, allowing access to SCSI hardware.) > Although this model has FireWire and USB ports (see Apple Knowledge > Base Article #58430, USB Info and Benefits of Dual-Channel USB), it > cannot boot from either. Also, it does not support FireWire Target > Disk Mode." > Greetings from Chile > > On Jul 30, 4:06 pm, Bill Christensen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
