On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 05:30 PM, Erik Gilchrist wrote: > > Since I am in the process of finding a IDE card (may buy one fom OWC > tonite) I still have a FireWire External that I'd like to toss my DUal > 867 drive > into since it has many essential files, mail, what have you and have > it be > bootable from the FW drive externally. > First off there is a good chance that the drive would have to be formated in order to use as firewire drive. So you would lose all your data etc unless backed up. This is the case when using IDE drives with ATA PCI cards. However Intech's harddisk tools drivers will take over a drive and let you use with an ATA PCi card with no loss of data OSX or OS 9.x It is the only software that does this. Don't know if it also works with Firewire converter boxes maybe worth checking into. > Xpostfacto says it is not bootable > OSX on the internal drive says it is ok to boot from that FW drive, > but then > just dumps back into 9 on reboot., > os 9 can see the drive >
This isn't an XPFacto issue but an old World Mac issue. No old World Mac can boot from FireWire nor USB. That said Ryan of XPFact is going to see if he can add Firewire booting into XPF 3.0 ! It is at least a few weeks or longer away... Sorry no ideas here save IDE Card. Best of luck Will S anybody got any ideas short of getting an IDE card for the PCI slots? I am > in DIGEST so i would LOVE to be CC'ed ;-) > > > > > > Erik Gilchrist > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.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]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
