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Concerning FireWire Boot Drives
Authored by: MacTipper on Fri, Apr 4 2008 at 8:09AM PDT

After having to go around a year booting off an External HD, I've discovered that you don't need to do this with a FireWire HD. In my experience, you can even charge while it's unplugged. As long as you plug it back in before you wake from sleep there's no problem.

For those interested, I was using an iBook G4 1 Ghz. I don't know if that makes a difference though. Also, it doesn't work if you have a USB device plugged in.

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