on 12/24/03 10:51 AM, chris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it possible to boot a bondi iMac (Rev A), from an external USB CD > drive? > > It seems the CD ROM drive on my bondi has now gone bad (this mac is > cursed, it was supposed to be a simple present for my brother, and I've > now wasted a week chasing problems thru it). > > I have an external USB CD-RW drive (Sony Supressa), but it doesn't seem > to want to boot from that drive (I need to repartition the hard drive so > I need to boot from another device). Is this even possible, and if so, is > there some trick to getting it to work?
>From what I've heard, no, you can't boot from USB on the early iMacs. The basic reason I've heard is that the Mac doesn't "know" it has USB ports or what to do with them until it's read some code from the hard drive or the internal CD drive. I have heard of people connecting two hard drives at once to the iMacs internal IDE bus, one hard drive replacing the internal CD. It's not too simple though, the internal CD doesn't have a standard ribbon cable, so you need some sort of adapter. I haven't done it myself, but some people on the list probably have. Good luck! -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> 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/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
