Hello all, I am new to this group and would like to know if this can
be answered: using an external FW800 HD as Boot drive?
Also, Disk Warrior 4.1 says the CD must be on the internal CD Drive
to work. I have done it once and it worked but the sounds that came
out of the wonky iMac combi drive
it's not bad at all. I would prefer to have an internal drive to make sure I
have guaranteed speed on the system's boot, but If you really need to use an
external drive after all else fails including the IDE controllers
themselves, then okay.
The only downside is though if you use an internal
And also, 250GB is not tiny! For an external drive, it is on the smaller
side, but for an internal, especially for PowerPC machines before the G5
era, it's huge! I have a G4 sawtooth that I am using right now that once
complained that the (now limit removed with proprietary software) HDD was
too
On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:43 AM, JDM wrote:
Hello all, I am new to this group and would like to know if this can
be answered: using an external FW800 HD as Boot drive?
I have an iBook G4 that had the internal IDE interface fail. I've been booting
it with an external 2.5 FW drive. FW isn't as
Actually, I am able to get a 1TB IDE HDD off of OWC.
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On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote:
Actually, I am able to get a 1TB IDE HDD off of OWC.
I see a 750 Gb but no 1Tb.
http://eshop.macsales.com/search/3.5+Internal+IDE/ATA
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
I'm a designated driver on the
strange, I bought one last year...
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On Oct 18, 6:36 pm, Mystic Prowler coolmar...@gmail.com wrote:
strange, I bought one last year...
Not strange at all. SATA has replaced IDE/ATA for a long time now, so
large IDE drives are not made anymore, or barely.
Felix
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