On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 20:28:34 -0400, david wrote: >For those of you who own a Mac Mini and a firewire drive, an easy way >to see how the hard drive influences start up, time your boot from >the internal drive and then the external firewire drive. Wow! Unfortunately my Firewire external drive is a bus-powered 2.5" model with one of the pre-Oxford chipsets and an old Toshiba 4200rpm drive. That would be "wow" for all the wrong reasons ;-) Neil