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Neosophic: New Wisdom » Blog Archive » Finovate 2007 — Updated
summary of the conference my company participated in. These vendors are all worth looking into:
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I’m looking to use a new Maxitor USB2.0 hard drive I aquired to create a Mac OS X boot drive for emergency and diagnostics.  Apparently Apple made it so you couldn’t boot from USB drives, only Firewire. I’m not sure if I can find a small firewire drive, that would be the last resort but there is stuff out there on making this work. When you go into Disk Utility it simply won’t let you format the drive as bootable.  So my first idea was to use my Data Rescue II application to clone it.  After 24 hours of copying,  the clone isn’t getting recognized.  I’m going to try one more time to clone using SuperDuper! instead.  If that doesn’t work its probably time to get a firewire drive or find a way to make my old iPod a bootable drive.  Here is more info from This Post on MacOSX Hints: Â
- USB 1.1 and 2.0 ports/drives have always booted OS 9, on any Mac that can boot into OS 9.
- Macs up through the Powerbook G4 1.33 GHz, and at least some desktops of the same vintage, and maybe a few other pre-Intel PPC Macs (not sure why not all the pre-Intel PPC Macs), will boot from USB 1.1 and 2.0 ports/drives into OS 10.4.x (at least 10.4.6 and above–I didn’t try earlier versions)–NOT OS 10.3.9 or earlier. Older Macs may need their firmware updated to the last version available for that Mac model, and not all USB drives might boot. Some USB drives will appear in Startup Manager (what you get when you hold down the Option key at startup), and others won’t; when they don’t, reset the Mac’s PRAM, NVRAM, and Open Firmware (see my steps above), and that may allow some of them to appear in Startup Manager.
“I found out that 10.4.x will boot from USB today, by surprise, when I had a USB drive in a 3.5″ MacAlly drive enclosure, connected to an iMac G3 slot-loading, 350 MHz, since this model doesn’t have Firewire ports, whose internal drive didn’t yet have an OS on it; I had booted the Mac from an OS 9.1 CD to set its clock, then I restarted the Mac, and ejected the CD, and to my surprise, the Mac then saw my USB drive’s OS 10.4.8 volume, and booted from it. It was slow, but not impossibly slow. It also appeared in this Mac’s Startup Manager, and I could select it in the OS 10.4.8 Startup Disk prefpane. However, as I expected, I couldn’t select the drive’s OS 10.3.9 volume in Startup Disk–I just got a system beep when I clicked the Restart button–and when I selected the OS 10.3.9 volume in Startup Manager, it started to boot, showing the Apple logo on a white background, and the spinning activity indicator, but after about a minute, the Apple changed to a slashed circle.”"I do remember reading that Apple never said it wasn’t possible to boot OS X from USB ports–they said it was a decision they made to prevent it, because OS X booted and ran so slowly from USB. Some people have said it’s a limitation of the firmware, or Open Firmware, but that doesn’t appear to be the case, unless it’s a few Mac models just prior to the Intel-based Macs that can’t boot 10.4.x from USB, as illustrated by some user examples above, unless there was some other issue preventing them.”Â
UPDATE - I got this to work for a while. It isn’t consistently recognizing the drive though on startup like a FireWire drive. Best bet - get a portable Firewire drive instead.
I ran the Mac Pro SMC Firmware Update 1.1 on my Mac Pro today. Wow - on restart is turned the fans on super high - I really thought the damn thing was going to catch on fire.
New update to iLife and iWork out this week as well. Security update 2007-007 for Intel.
October Mac OS-X update give new Parental Controls - can’t wait.
Update - did a web search - MacFixIt website shows that this was an update to the way Mac OS X uses the fans to cool the CPU. Apparently it will rev the fans every time it startup up or even wakes up.
This Garden Is Illegal - A Garden Blog
is a great resource for information on gardening and related activities. As the writer states, gardening is an obsession; which is pretty much the way I’ve been running lately.
