By the system on the drive????
Mike Amato
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On 7/28/04 9:32 PM, "Fluxstringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have been checking in to external firewire drives and would like to find one that has fairly large capacity (120 GB +) and is bootable. Problem is "bootable" doesn't seem to be a bandied selling point in the specs of many of the most popular brands. My assumption is, then, that most external firewire Maxtors and others are not bootable.
How do you know which external firewire drives are bootable?, i.e., what is the technical aspect that makes them bootable? Obviously needs proper ROM read and driver load at boot. What do you need to look for, exactly?
Mike
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How do you boot from a Firewire drive when the Mac OS has to be running in order for the firewire extension to be enabled ?
In other words ( Forgive the emphasis here folks . And correct me if and only if I am definitely wrong ) IT CAN'T BE DONE !
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Yeah, the system on the drive you want to boot from. Otherwise known as the boot system on the boot drive.
Booting from a Firewire drive would require some sort of firewire extension file in a nonvolatile RAM ( NVRAM0 which is possible
But I have not read of such a thing for Firewire.
An analogy to this might be expecting an egg to hatch before it has been fertilized.
How can the Fire wire drive boot if the Firewire extension is not active ? How can the Firewire extension be active if the OS is not already booted ?
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