Quoting Will Schou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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
Will, Yeah, sounds like an Old World issue as confirmed by you and others (and my fertile imagination) -- gonna go order the card from OWC (whenever possible ;-) Can't wait for Ryan to kick out a version that does FW!!!!! Ryan Rumpel rocks! Heard hm interviewed on some macradio and got the whole story on him. Great fella. I'll make a mental note of the formatting issue. Luckily I have a spare 60GB drive on top of the Apple ROM. I can CCClone it over if I have to on somebody elses true G machine... So many different macs, so little billable consulting time ;-) Erik Gilchrist mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ d e s i g n . d e v e l o p . d e l i v e r :::::::: http://www.metagrafix.com :::::::: -- 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
