FYI, I picked up today a copy of the UK edition of MacWorld at my local bookstore. There's an article in there about how they've discovered that not all firewire drives can be used as boot devices--seems they've discovered a few, the Kanguru 80gig Quicksilver and an 80 gig DiskGo! for example, all failed the bootup-by-firewire test. And this was confirmed by the drive manufacturers, too. Seems that not all the bridge chips that the enclosures use are capable of doing bootup--the DiskGoQ! tech said that their newer drives over 400gig could, since they used a newer bridge chip. So it pays to ask about boot ability when buying your drive. (this was in the UK MacWorld Expo Issue pg 195, btw)
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