PCMICA with the New Little G4 PowerBook

[Dan K]

On 1/12/03 Ivan Drucker <ivanxqz at yahoo.com> wrote:

>You can boot from FW drives with the New World firmware, with the 
>exception of the Blue & White G3's, and the early low-end "PCI Graphics" 
>(aka Yikes!) G4 which was based on the same motherboard. You cannot boot 
>a USB drive on any Mac to the best of my knowledge; I certainly can't 
>with my iBook 600. It would be pretty unpleasant, actually, to run from a 
>USB drive, because USB is quite slow (1.5 MB/sec, or Mac Plus-era SCSI 
>speeds).

I was just looking for FW-booting-info for a friend and came upon the 
delightful news that his Yikes (PCI) G4 was the first Mac capable of 
booting from the USB bus. Sadly though, as you say it is not capable of 
booting from the FW bus.

Dan K