On Jun 22, 2009, at 4:35 PM, insightinmind wrote:
> > On Jun 22, 2009, at 7:23 PM, MacGuy wrote: >> >> >> On Jun 22, 2009, at 4:08 PM, insightinmind wrote: >>> >>> Have you tried the 3.5 drive elsewhere? (apologies if you state this >>> earlier in the thread). >> >> 2.5 mounted on the desktop via USB, I booted from a leopard volume on >> it..all looked ok. Then I connected the 3.5 (which works perfectly in >> several other macs/ and enclosures) and it would not even mount. The >> drive would spin up.... light comes on, that's it. > > About boot-a-bility of external USB drives ... is that OS X (Leopard > vrs Tiger) dependent in any way? I thought I read somewhere that USB > 2 bootable became good (or was that "became flaky"?) under Leopard, > and was not good under Tiger. If so, what OS were you trying to boot > from on the 3.5 drive? > > I'll stop here ... I'm using an intel-based mini for the "booting" of that usb connected enclosure (all the intel based macs boot from usb without issues) I don't believe that PPC macs ever did. Jeff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
