Boot from FireWire?

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Noozer

Just wondering...

Does the Firewire standard allow from booting from externally connected
firewire drives? I find it kinda odd that I can boot from USB drives, but
not from a firewire drive.

I'd prefer to connect my DVDRW drives to the PC using firewire, but it's
kinda pointless if I have to switch to USB when loading an OS, or booting
from a utility disk.
 
Firewire is primarily an Apple standard. PC's primarily use USB 2, thus the
PC boot sequence has accepted USB 2, but not Firewire.
 
DaveW said:
Firewire is primarily an Apple standard. PC's primarily use USB 2,
thus the PC boot sequence has accepted USB 2, but not Firewire.
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Please do not top-post. Your answer belongs after (or intermixed
with) the quoted material to which you reply, after snipping all
irrelevant material. See the following links:

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Just wondering...

Does the Firewire standard allow from booting from externally connected
firewire drives? I find it kinda odd that I can boot from USB drives, but
not from a firewire drive.

I'd prefer to connect my DVDRW drives to the PC using firewire, but it's
kinda pointless if I have to switch to USB when loading an OS, or booting
from a utility disk.
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Booting from any device interface type, whether it be USB or
firewire, etc, depends on the bios support, and
user-selected bios settings for seeking/using a viable boot
device connected to that controller. So there is no matter
of the firewire standard, nor USB as it is not inherantly
more bootable, just far more likely to be supported on a
_PC_. So it seems most likely your bios doesn't support
as most don't, and you'll need to either put one drive on
USB or copy over the contents of the DVDs/etc onto another
USB device.

Why not just use a PATA or SATA optical drive like most
systems do?
 
Noozer said:
Please don't hijack posts. It's rude to start a new topic on top of
someone elses.
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Top posting is confusing as it loses the flow of the post. As you can see
anything below a top-posted reply is cut off, so everythig before your reply
is gone, so anyone missing out a message in the flow, won't be able to
figure out what we are talking about!

This post is a perfect example. From other posting in this thread, I believe
this message to be part of a thread discussing firewire but my news provider
has missed the reply you posted, I only see CBFalconer's reply asking you to
post properly, so all I can see on this thread is above this text!

Alot of people don't realise that all text following the double minus sign
(in some signatures) is removed, so when you top-post and someone replies to
your top-post, all text below their signature (now in the middle of the
message) is lost. Even if the text is not lost, then the flow is totally
disrupted and renders the thread unreadable.
 
Noozer wrote: *** top-posting corrected ***
...and what does this have to do with booting from a firewire drive?
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Very little, but it has to do with the format of posts.

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Noozer said:
...and what does this have to do with booting from a firewire drive?
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Your question doesn't make any sense, you posted above everything, so I
don't know what topic you are commenting on. To answer your question on face
value: your post has nothing to do with booting from a firewire drive, why
do you ask?
 
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