[X4U] firewire drives

[Birgit Rhoads]

The files should look just like those on the internal drive you cloned. 
  Open your System Prefs/StartUp Disk and see if the drive shows up.  If 
so, click on it to make it the start up disk and restart.  You should 
be booted up with the external drive.  If you will not be using the 
drive much, shut it down to give it longer life.  If you will be using 
it a lot, leave it on your desktop.  I use mine for backup and iMovie 
files which take a lot of space.  If you want to shut it down, be sure 
to eject the drive first, then turn it off.  You can leave the firewire 
connected.

Birgit
On Jan 10, 2005, at 8:32 PM, spoonbender wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have an LaCie 160 GB external firewire drive, with both the 800 and 
> 400 and USB 2.0 connections. I am running a Powermac G4 quicksilver 
> (2002) 1.2 gig processor and 1 gig of ram, running mac os x 10.3.7. I 
> used CarbonCopyCloner to clone my system and made sure the box that 
> said 'make bootable' was checked. Funny thing is when I open the 
> firewire drive icon to see whats on the drive I only see the folders. 
> No dev or boot or etc files. Im rather new with the use of firewire 
> drives so Im not sure if Ive done something wrong or no. Also is it 
> proper to leave the firewire drive on or just turn it on when you need 
> it ?
> Thanx,
> spoonbender...
>
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