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Can a G4 400 boot off FireWire?
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I believe that the original G4 does not support target disk mode, but can it at least boot off an external FireWire disk? I'd like to know. Thanks.
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I do know for sure that the Yosemite G3 can not boot from FireWire, I wanna to believe Apple solved that issue with the G4, even the Yikes one.
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I know for a fact that you can boot a slotloading iMac off a Firewire drive, beacuse I've done it several times. The first G4 has the same revision of the chipset, so it should be possible there too. Just make sure you update the Firmware as far as it will go.
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If its a Sawtooth G4 400 it can boot off the firewire, if it is a Yikes (basically a Yosemite with a G4 jammed into it) it cannot.
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Are AGP models Sawtooth? Or could they be Yikes? I'm not in front of the machines now but I know that they are 400 MHz AGP models.
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Originally posted by waffffffle:
Are AGP models Sawtooth? Or could they be Yikes? I'm not in front of the machines now but I know that they are 400 MHz AGP models.
Yikes= PCI, Sawtooth=AGP Graphics.
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Any Mac with AGP graphics can boot from FireWire and USB; any Mac without AGP cannot. All Macs that can boot from FireWire support Target Disk Mode; all that cannot boot from FireWire also can't do TDM.
The earliest AGP Macs (original iBook, early G4s, and slot-load iMac) need to have the latest firmware update to do it.
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nice explanation tooky!
I have a G4 400 AGP and it boots off an external FW HD; and also can do target disk mode (tried both).
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Originally posted by tooki:
Any Mac with AGP graphics can boot from FireWire and USB; any Mac without AGP cannot.
My Pismo 400 (which is PCI) supports target disk mode and FireWire booting.
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Originally posted by waffffffle:
My Pismo 400 (which is PCI) supports target disk mode and FireWire booting.
Pismo was the first Apple portable being AGP 
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Last edited by waffffffle; Oct 27, 2004 at 09:25 AM.
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Actually, the Pismo was the first PowerBook with AGP; the first Apple laptop with AGP was the original iBook (which can't boot from FireWire for lack of a FireWire port -- it can boot from USB though).
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