[mmalloy]

Does anybody know if a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet will boot from an external firewire hard drive? Since FireWire was not built into these PowerBooks, a CardBus firewire card would be needed. It certainly should read the hard drive, but I am not so sure that the external HD would be bootable. Anybody know the answer?

[Since EBCDIC]

I believe so, but I'm not completely sure. If you really, really, really want to know I'll dig mine out of the basement and let you know.

Or you can invest a tiny amount in a RATOC FireWire PCMCIA (PC Card) on eBay and try it yourself. I used 'em a lot back in Wall Street / Pismo days...

[tooki]

No, it definitely won't work.

Only AGP Macs can boot from FireWire, because it's built into the motherboard chipset. Even the 2 Mac models with built-in FireWire that's not integrated into the chipset (it's a separate chip on the board) can't boot from FireWire.

tooki

[mmalloy]

Originally Posted by tooki

No, it definitely won't work.

Only AGP Macs can boot from FireWire, because it's built into the motherboard chipset. Even the 2 Mac models with built-in FireWire that's not integrated into the chipset (it's a separate chip on the board) can't boot from FireWire.

tooki

Thanks for the information!!!
- Mike Malloy