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l008com · Sep 17, 2003, 08:15 PM

Is there any way you can get a Blue and White G3 to boot off of a FireWire device? Or to get it to run in Target Mode itself (but preferably to boot off a firewire device) ??

Cipher13 · Sep 17, 2003, 08:23 PM

Originally posted by l008com:
Is there any way you can get a Blue and White G3 to boot off of a FireWire device? Or to get it to run in Target Mode itself (but preferably to boot off a firewire device) ??

Well, as to the latter... boot and hold T and find out...?

superlarry · Sep 17, 2003, 09:41 PM

Originally posted by l008com:
Is there any way you can get a Blue and White G3 to boot off of a FireWire device? Or to get it to run in Target Mode itself (but preferably to boot off a firewire device) ??

and as to the former, no. the firewire isn't set up in time in the boot process. i'm guessing this excludes Target Mode as well, but i haven't tried it.

tooki · Sep 17, 2003, 10:12 PM

By coincidence, only Macs with AGP graphics support FireWire Target Disk Mode and booting from FireWire and USB.

The blue G3 does not meet these requirements. There is no workaround.

tooki