On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 10:21 AM, John wrote: > is it possible to start up from an external firewire drive? > > I know it works on my G3 firewire laptop. I haven't had any luck > getting my Power Tower Pro to boot from it. I just installed a > MacNally Firewire card into it. everything seems to be working fine. > transferring data etc. etc. but when I try to restart nothing > happens, just get a grey screen then the computer eventually finds > another internal drive to start up off of. >
I have PTP with an Apple 400 G3 upgrade card. I have Granite Digital Firewire host adapter PCI card, and use their external Firewire enclosures. It will boot from the firewire HD, if selected from the start up drive control panel, in X. It takes a long time to boot from a cold start on the external drive. Booting from the internal SCSI drive is much faster. Jack Russell -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
