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Sager 5660 Booting from an External Firewire Hard Disk instead of IDE

post #1 of 3
11/8/02 at 7:05pm
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Guys any of you knows if there's any chance of booting off from an external firewire hard disk instead of the normal IDe channel from the mobo.
I assume there has to be some option within the Machine bios where you can choose booting from any other available ports such as firewire or USB 2.0 <<
thanks!!
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11/8/02 at 10:30pm
Even if you could, I don't think you would really want to, after you found out how "fast" your OS loaded from the external HD. As far as I know, it's not a good idea to run apps, especially OSes from an external HD, firewire, usb 2.0, or otherwise.
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post #3 of 3
11/9/02 at 8:13pm
I'm also interested in this....firewire might not be the ideal peak transfer rate interface but a qucik 7200 rpm drive would (I'd think) perform better over firewire than the laptops internal would due to the huge difference in random seeks.....now If I could just cram a 64 bit u160 card in there somehow and get the laptop to run my x15....then we'd be talking
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