Ginny
I feel terribly "thick" about this, but I''m afraid I really don't know what is being said here. Let me give you my "scenario" & ask a question. I have a Power Mac 6500 machine, with an installed G 3 400 CPU. I have an external second Hard drive. I installed Firewire/USB card to which I connected this external hard drive, using a firewire port. I copied my entire 4 Gig original Hard drive to the external 40 gig HD, including the OS 9.1 operating system folder, as a backup. My computer has the original motherboard, and it cannot be upgraded or so I've been told (it is soldered in, I think). Is this correct? So if my original installed hard drive "died", I cannot even start up my computer & have it boot up?
I notice that when I boot up, the HD #1 icon appears, then the HD #2 icon appears on the desktop. I keep it active so that when I hit the power button, it spins up. I can turn it off, but it has a rather "delicate" on-off button that a portion broke off of & my neighbor (a computer engineer) glued a piece on to the button so that it could be used. However, I am afraid it might break again, so keep it on at all times.
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You have a 6500 which is a legacy PCI Mac.
Your CPU has been upgraded to a G3. But may not have a dedicated cpu slot. (?)
It can use up to 128 MB RAM according to my reference.
As this Mac does not have that necessary circuit architecture for Firewire booting you cannot boot from your external Firewire drive
even if the drive supports this.
-- Adrian
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