On 9/9/02 3:50 PM Alan Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I guess my question concerns if things go haywire and the PRAM got zapped,
>how can I make the system look for the IDE drive (containing the System
>folder) first ?
I don't think you can do that. Without a startup disk chosen I believe it
goes through the drives starting at Bus 0, ID 0 until it comes up with a
bootable system. The solution would probably be to make sure that there
isn't anything prior to the IDE with a system on it. It will definitely
find the IDE drive if that's where the concern is, the hardware is
recognized as just another SCSI bus.
On the other hand, Firewire will not work on our systems as a boot
device. I can't get a Firewire drive to showup in my System Profiler at
all. I'm not sure about USB, I don't have any USB drives to test with.
Joe
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