[muglo] Re: External usb drive for "bootable backup"?

Thanks Gerhard and Tee:

I will look into both your suggestions, i.e. the firewire case for 
the external and the daisy chain.

Leith

>My understanding is on this is that OS X on a non Intel Mac will not 
>boot from USB.  Does your firewire cd burner not allow you to daisy 
>chain another firewire device to it?  All my firewire devices (except 
>for an old iPod)  allow you to daisy chain another device behind it.  
>On my desk I have three hard-drives and a DVD burner daisy chained and 
>they all work by plugging the first device into the computer.
>
>Gerhard


At 1:35 PM -0500 1/11/09, Tee Cashmore wrote:
>The main reason for a Firewire drive over a USB drive is the ability 
>to boot
>  From the external; the case is USB BTW, not the HD. External 
>firewire cases
>run about $60, almost twice that of a USB case. So, if your HD went 
>kaput you
>could simply transfer the external; drive to the G4, but if your 
>computer gets
>zapped that's a different scenario. HTH.
>TeeC


>
>
>On 11-Jan-09, at 1:13 PM, Leith Peterson wrote:
>
>>  My only concern is that it's a usb external and Stone refers to 
>>  firewire.  I
>  > have a firewire port but I use it for my CD burner.
>
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