[X4U] FireWire enclosure for SATA drive (Was: Migrate without Firewire link.)

[Randy B.Singer]

Wayne Clodfelter said:

>I think he may be alluding to fact that USB 2.0 drives cannot be used  
>as boot drives.

That isn't strictly the case.

All of the Intel-based Macs can boot from USB 2.0 drives, as long as the 
drive has been formatted on your Intel-based Mac and not on a PowerPC Mac.
http://rentzsch.com/tidbits/intelbasedMacBootIncompatibility

While PowerPC Macs running OS X normally can't boot from USB 2.0 drives, 
some PowerPC Macs running OS 9 can.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58430

Here is a hack that might let you boot from a USB 2.0 if you have a 
PowerPC-based Mac:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060301112336384



Randy B. Singer

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