[muglo] Re: External usb drive for "bootable backup"?
- From: Leith Peterson <leithriver@xxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:53:07 -0500
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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