Hi, 2009/4/23 Robert Howells <rhowe...@arach.net.au>: > BUT what about FIREWIRE 800 . > Has anybody actually done it .... booted a PPC or an Intel Mac ?
You're really not telling us what models this pertains to, so the answer is "officially yes, most of the time, but not on some older Macs, and in some cases you may have to apply a firmware update". I haven't heard of any rule specifically preventing FireWire 800 Macs from booting via FireWire 800, so if anything it would be the FireWire 400 macs that might not boot. I have booted an Xserve with FW 800, but I can only guess that this doesn't answer question. You might take heart from this website: <http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-BootDriveDogma.html> (answer: at least one person has done it successfully with one model that wasn't an Xserve). Note that with laptops, you may have to have the AC adaptor plugged in if you want to boot from a bus-powered FireWire drive. James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
