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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / July 2006suggestions on bootable firewire enclosure
I have a 600mhz iMac g3. Your suggestions please for an external harddrive enclosure with: - a firewire connection - USB connection - the ability to boot a harddrive partition via the firewire connection - supports a 150 gig drive which I have I heard that you cannnot boot some firewire drives? Is this true? What about heat? Do I need a fan? Could I add a boot manager to boot to my system that would boot a partition on the external drive? I'd try on of those free linux boot managers. Robert > I have a 600mhz iMac g3. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > - the ability to boot a harddrive partition via the firewire connection > - supports a 150 gig drive which I have Look at Other Work Computing. www.macsales.com > I heard that you cannnot boot some firewire drives? Is this true? From what I have read, Yes, this is true. Has to do with the chipset/bridge within the enclosure. > What about heat? Do I need a fan? My 2 are fanless. Depends on maufacturer. > Could I add a boot manager to boot to my system that would boot a > partition on the external drive? I'd try on of those free linux boot > managers. > > Robert You can install your OS on the external drive if it meets requirements. > I have a 600mhz iMac g3. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > - the ability to boot a harddrive partition via the firewire connection > - supports a 150 gig drive which I have Lots of cases available. Check <http://www.dealmac.com/> and, for a store, <http://eshop.macsales.com/>. Don't go cheap; for a couple of bucks extra you can get some nice amenities. > I heard that you cannnot boot some firewire drives? Is this true? I suppose it's theoretically possible, but I don't think I've seen one. I think I _have_ seen machines which won't boot from a FW drive, but not recently. > What about heat? Do I need a fan? Depends on the drive, the environment and how you use it. I recently put together a drive and I decided I'd rather have the fan than not. But we get some hot days during the summer and this device will get a lot of use. > Could I add a boot manager to boot to my system that would boot a > partition on the external drive? I'd try on of those free linux boot > managers. I think your machine is new enough that it has an adequate boot volume selector built in. Hold down option while (re)starting and I think you'll see after several seconds a screen showing buttons for all bootable volumes attached to your machine.  SignatureWhat I write is what I mean. I request that anyone who decides to respond please refrain from "disagreeing" with something I didn't write in the first place. >> I heard that you cannnot boot some firewire drives? Is this true? >I suppose it's theoretically possible, but I don't think I've seen one. >I think I _have_ seen machines which won't boot from a FW drive, but not >recently. Both the machine and the case's chipset must support FW booting... I have at least one earlier Oxford that will NOT boot a machine that others will.. SignatureA host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 |
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