Yeah, if your CDR isnt bootable and you need to boot from a CD you'd have to
disconnect the CD-R and connect your old CD drive. Not that difficult but a
pain. A firewire card and firewire CD-r would be the best solution I think-
but I havent tried it- I could ask people on the G3 list if they have.
NickUtah
> but I agree with Craig, keep your CD-ROM to boot from
>> (provided it works) and get a Toast compatible drive. So then the problem
>> becomes having only two IDE connections.
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A USB optical mouse also works well, but I agree standard USB is too slow
for large hard-drives where you're frequently loading lg amts of data, or
for CD burning. BTW I don't recommend cordless mouse, I had rapid battery
death problems on the one I tried. There is faster USB2 now, but I think
firewire has established itself as the standard fast connection.
NickUtah
> USB really is useless for anything except printers, I still don't
> understand why apple, or any other computer manufacturer for that
> matter bothered with it.
>
> Craig
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