Greetings again Fred<div><br></div><div>You don't need a "Firewire" drive, just a firewire external enclosure. The drive inside of my firewire enclosure is a Maxtor 300Gb IDE/EIDE drive.</div><div><br></div><div>
The enclosure that I have is a "Versa - Drive" and it has a small fan. I can leave this Firewire enclosure on all of the time, even on a very hot day and it is only slightly warm to the touch.</div><div><br></div>
<div>I would highly recommend that you putout the extra cash for a drive like mine as I know that you will be highly satisfied.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Harry</div><div>San Jose, Ca</div><div>
---------------------------------<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Fred Thiel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fthiel@sbcglobal.net">fthiel@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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.<br>
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Thanks again<br><font color="#888888">
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On Jan 17, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Harry Freeman wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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If you can find one I would recommend a 'Firewire" external enclosure as it will be a bootable device.<br>
I have a 320Gb drive connected through a Firewire enclosure which is a bootable drive.<br>
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