Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-11 Thread jonas ulrich
Hey thanks for all your input. I went ahead and bought: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEFW911UPLOB/ Thanks -Jonas On 1/11/09, Kris Tilford wrote: > > > On Jan 11, 2009, at 4:58 AM, yawg wrote: > > > My other two have Initio-controllers and used to boot my Panthe

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-11 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 11, 2009, at 4:58 AM, yawg wrote: > My other two have Initio-controllers and used to boot my Panther > clones OK but lost that ability somehow lately, I don't know why. I > always use CCC for cloning. I've used a few Initio chipset FW enclosures and they've always booted for me. I think

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-11 Thread yawg
Hi, I have three external Firewire drives, one with an Oxford-controller that always boots fine, there is a Tiger clone on that disk now. My other two have Initio-controllers and used to boot my Panther clones OK but lost that ability somehow lately, I don't know why. I always use CCC for clonin

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-11 Thread yawg
Hi, I have three external Firewire drives, one with an Oxford-controller that always boots fine, there is a Tiger clone on that disk now. My other two have Initio-controllers and used to boot my Panther clones OK but lost that ability somehow lately, I don't know why. I always use CCC for clonin

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-10 Thread insightinmind
On Jan 10, 2009, at 2:12 AM, Ralph Green wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 23:03 -0800, jonas ulrich wrote: >> http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/NP35FW/ >> >> >> Is this a good drive case to buy? >> -Jonas > > Howdy, > It should work well with the Mac and it looks OK. I s

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-09 Thread Ralph Green
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 23:03 -0800, jonas ulrich wrote: > http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/NP35FW/ > > > Is this a good drive case to buy? > -Jonas Howdy, It should work well with the Mac and it looks OK. I see that it is designed for IDE drives. I'd look for a case th

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-09 Thread jonas ulrich
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/NP35FW/ Is this a good drive case to buy? -Jonas On 1/9/09, Kris Tilford wrote: > > > On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:25 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > > > I just found this case on ebay. says its for mac/pc what do you > > think? > http://cgi.ebay.com/3-

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-09 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:25 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > I just found this case on ebay. says its for mac/pc what do you > think? > http://cgi.ebay.com/3-5-USB-2-0-1394-FIREWIRE-HD-ENCLOSURE-CASE-BLACK_W0QQitemZ5127087778QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Drives_Storage_Internal?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116 It's al

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-09 Thread jonas ulrich
I just found this case on ebay. says its for mac/pc what do you think? http://cgi.ebay.com/3-5-USB-2-0-1394-FIREWIRE-HD-ENCLOSURE-CASE-BLACK_W0QQitemZ5127087778QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Drives_Storage_Internal?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116 On 1/9/09, jonas ulrich wrote: > > When you say that the other mod

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-09 Thread jonas ulrich
When you say that the other models will work OK, are you saying that they won't work as well?-Jonas On 1/9/09, Kris Tilford wrote: > > > On Jan 9, 2009, at 7:37 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > > > I am looking for a way to get around the 128GB limit on my digital > > audio powermac without replacing th

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-09 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 9, 2009, at 7:37 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > I am looking for a way to get around the 128GB limit on my digital > audio powermac without replacing the computer because I am cheap. > All of the ata cards that i found either didn't support big drives > or weren't bootable. Will it be rel

booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-09 Thread jonas ulrich
I am looking for a way to get around the 128GB limit on my digital audio powermac without replacing the computer because I am cheap. All of the ata cards that i found either didn't support big drives or weren't bootable. Will it be reliable/possible to boot from an external firewire drive?-Jonas -