Thanks, Harry. I'm just going to use it for shared storage on my home network. It doesn't need to be bootable. Non-firewire drives are less expensive and more readably available. The two internal drives I have on the G4 are bootable as well as the one external back up drive I have. Thanks again Fred On Jan 17, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Harry Freeman wrote: > The configuration that you have outlined should work, however be > aware that you will not be able to boot from the drive connected to > the USB port. > > If you can find one I would recommend a 'Firewire" external > enclosure as it will be a bootable device. > I have a 320Gb drive connected through a Firewire enclosure which > is a bootable drive. >