>I just added an Orange firewire/USB card and a Maxtor 60 GB external
>firewire drive to my 7500. I was sure disappointed to learn that I
>could not boot from this drive. I was going to install OS 9.1 on it.
>Is there anyway to fix this? If not, I guess I'll install it on the
>2GB drive that originally came with it.
Sorry, you can only boot from a firewire (external or internal) drive
if firewire is built into your Mac. The problem is that with PCI
based firewire the built in firmware in your 7500 does not know how
to initialize firewire and communicate with the drive. Firewire is
initialized by the FW extensions during the OS boot.
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