[X Newbies] Booting FW Drive on a B&W

[Randy B. Singer]

Albert W D'Amanda said:

>Can this upgrading of the B&W firmware be done?

There is a firmware update for the B&W G3, but it does not allow you to 
boot from a FireWire external hard drive.

>Is there an upgrade?

No, Apple has never released a firmware upgrade for the B&W G3 that will 
allow it to boot from a FireWire drive.  The technote that I cited was 
referring to other models, not the B&W G3, when they were referring to a 
firmware update to allow booting.

>Or is that that  way the cookie crumbles !

Yes.  That way.


Randy B. Singer
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