At 8:52 PM -0500 12/8/2008, Al Poulin wrote: >Apple tech article: >http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1550?viewlocale=en_US > >tells me that to use Time Machine to an external hard drive from a >PowerPC-based Mac, the drive must be initialized with Apple Partition >Map partition scheme. From an Intel Mac, it must be initialized with >GUID partition scheme. So I would need two separate external drives >to handle a G4 and three Intel Macs.
There is a bad information inconsistency here, as you've discovered. What we thought we knew was: 1. PowerPC-based Macs can only boot from APM disks. 2. x86-based Macs can only boot from GUID disks. Thus the problem of making multiple mixed-platform *bootable* clones on a drive, as you've discovered. But then it would seem newer versions of Leopard (or perhaps just the firmware?) have changed that! x86 Macs can now boot on APM drives! Does that means *all* x86 Macs can do this? I donno. I'm finding no consistent / definitive information on the 'net. And so far, every x86-based iMac and Mac Pro I've tried, running updated Leopard, is able to boot from an APM disk containing a clone of updated Leopard. I have NO information regarding other Macs or Tiger or un-updated Leopard... I'm thinking you'd need to run a test with your x86 Macs - see if they'll boot from an APM drive. If they do, then you're all set. If they don't, then you'd need two drives. And hopefully, other LEM folx can try things out... HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
