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USB Bootable Macs? \ USB-FireWire Adapter?
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l008com
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Sep 19, 2003, 04:38 AM
 
Can all Macs with Built in USB boot off of a USB hard drive? I know blue G3's with firewire couldn't boot off of a firewire drive, is there a similar thing for USB? And of coarse the next question is, is there some sort of adapter that will convert a FireWire drive into a USB Drive? I really want a solution to boot older Macs off of my iBook, like I do now with more modern Macs, because it is chalk-full of all sorts of tools and utilities.
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Sep 19, 2003, 09:23 AM
 
Originally posted by l008com:
Can all Macs with Built in USB boot off of a USB hard drive? I know blue G3's with firewire couldn't boot off of a firewire drive, is there a similar thing for USB? And of coarse the next question is, is there some sort of adapter that will convert a FireWire drive into a USB Drive? I really want a solution to boot older Macs off of my iBook, like I do now with more modern Macs, because it is chalk-full of all sorts of tools and utilities.
tooki responded to another of your posts about this: only agp-enabled macs can boot from firewire or usb.
i personally haven't seen a usb-firewire converter in either direction, but i have seen hard drive enclosures which feature both types of connections.
     
   
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