Bootable Firewire Drives

Julian Stecklina js at alien8.de
Tue Nov 3 12:03:06 UTC 2009


Sean Bruno <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net> writes:

> Does anyone have a good idea of what(if any) motherboard bios' support
> firewire as a bootable target?
>
> None of my machines seem to be able to boot off an external firewire
> drive which is hampering my efforts to prove out the code.

It could be implemented as Option ROM on a Firewire controller,
regardless of the BIOS. I haven't seen one, though.

Regards,
-- 
Julian Stecklina

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they start making vacuum cleaners - Ernst Jan Plugge



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