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
From: Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [PCI] External Firewire Bootability Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:55:28 -0700
On Jul 29, 2004, at 8:27 AM, Ron wrote:
I can start my 9500 (OS 9.1) from an external wide SCSI connected to a PCI.
I can start my eMac (OS 10.3.4) off an external FireWire
You cannot boot a PCI mac off of a Firewire drive. Firewire bootability was not introduced, iirc, until the PowerMac G4's.
Alrighty then. For the sake of clarity, let's say I want to use an external firewire on a non-PCI mac (gasp, OT!) like my iBook to boot from. Getting back to the original question, what makes one drive bootable over another that is not bootable given that they both contain the bootable system.
I have seen the recommendation several times in various forums to "make sure you get a bootable drive". What determines this???
Mike (8500, 9500, iMac DV & iBook owner/user.
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