Firewire disk on Mac

Post #71,597 by dmarker 12/30/02 8:05:31 PM Reply	Firewire disk on Mac [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71425\|http://z.iwethey.org...w?contentid=71425] The above link was one I posted in Hardware re a USB2/FireWire combo disk box I bought yesterday. It has proven terrific for the Mac iBook. I put a 30GB 2.5 in IBM Travelstar disk in it. Formatted it on a WindowsMe machine - fat32, using USB 1.1. Attached it via FireWire to iBook which immediately recognised it. I used Disk util to partition it into 2 equal partitions & then installed another copy of OS 9.1 on one of them. When I boot & hold Options key down I can boot off the plugged in FireWire disk - the same disk can be used on Windows as the 2nd partition will be a bucket repository for both machines. Very neat. FireWire data transfer is rocket fast. Seems to be equal or maybe better than the iBook's native 10GB disk. Cheers Doug
Post #71,622 by tjsinclair 12/30/02 10:21:33 PM Reply	Can also boot off of an iPod over the FireWire connection. I understand some folks are installing a bootable system plus appropriate repair/troubleshooting utilities for portable diagnostics. Tom Sinclair "Everybody is someone else's weirdo." - E. Dijkstra
Post #71,784 by tuberculosis 12/31/02 7:12:26 PM Reply	Yep - they rock - I carry around 200 CD's on one. For iTunes. Love it. I am out of the country for the duration of the Bush administration. Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when democracy returns.
Post #71,793 by deSitter 12/31/02 8:08:56 PM Reply	Windows ME? Trash that POS! -drl
Post #71,797 by dmarker 12/31/02 8:24:08 PM 12/31/02 8:26:50 PM Reply	BUT, Ya can't format a new USB disk with Win2000 !!! ya have to go to Win98 WinMe (otherwise I would get great pleasure trashing it). Also if you wipe an existing disk you can't reallocate the a new partition table from Win2000. However MS did see the value of putting this support back in WinXP but who wants that unless it is rammed down ones throat <grin>. Cheers Doug #1 qualified meaning Edited by dmarker Dec. 31, 2002, 08:26:50 PM EST Expand All History
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