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Is Seagate 400GB Firewire drive bootable?
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I am thinking about buying the following external hard drive:
Seagate 400GB 16MB Cache Combo (USB 2.0 / Firewire) Hard Drive - ST3400601CB-RK
Does anyone know if this drive can boot a Mac?
I have looked on the seagate website and can't find any mention of it.
Thanks to anyone that can help,
Dan
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The drive doesn't care.
But yes, any Mac with built-in FireWire ports can boot from FireWire hard disks except the Blue and White G3 and the PCI Graphics Power Mac G4.
You cannot boot Mac OS X off of USB, but FireWire is fine (and preferable anyway).
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provided the enclosure is bootable, of course.
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Originally Posted by tooki
The drive doesn't care.
But yes, any Mac with built-in FireWire ports can boot from FireWire hard disks except the Blue and White G3 and the PCI Graphics Power Mac G4.
You cannot boot Mac OS X off of USB, but FireWire is fine (and preferable anyway).
tooki
As rjenkinson mentioned, the firewire enclosures may or may not be OSX bootable. I bought an enclosure that used a Prolific Firewire chipset and it would not boot. Anthing that uses an Oxford chipset, as far as I've read, will be bootable though.
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Very, very few enclosures are not bootable, and if they're not, it's because their design is faulty. Any enclosure that follows the Mass Storage standard should be bootable.
I have never encountered an enclosure in the wild that did not boot.
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As you said, not all Firewire drives are bootable. I forget which major brand doesn't do Mac booting on their drives. That is why I question drives now. You can't assume they all are bottalbe or you may end with one of the ones that don't... even though they may be the exception to the rule. I'll see what chipset it uses. That may help to make sure. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by danrodney
As you said, not all Firewire drives are bootable. I forget which major brand doesn't do Mac booting on their drives. That is why I question drives now. You can't assume they all are bottalbe or you may end with one of the ones that don't... even though they may be the exception to the rule. I'll see what chipset it uses. That may help to make sure. Thanks.
I have used a non-bootable enclosure  It was for a laptop drive (2.5") and USB2/Firewire. It was cheap, and if I could find it, I'd tell you the chipset.
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