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To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (22534)	1/14/1999 11:56:00 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

>>>"I believe the BIOS doesn't think to check the USB for drives" ??? Can someone confirm that? Yuch! What a stupid thing! If you're right then the new G3's won't boot from external drives, either. I'm starting to be glad I don't have one. Almost. <<< Waaaaait a minute! Apple makes no Apple branded disk drives for USB. Therefore you won't find an Apple disk driver in ROM (now recodable RAM) [What the hell's a BIOS? Seems I heard of something like them on PeeCees, right?]. Anyways, the drivers have to be supplied by the USB disk drive maker, like Iomega or Imation. If the drive is going to be used as a boot disk, either the machine's hard disk needs the driver (in which case a dead hard disk won't work); the vendor's driver installed on a CDROM would work in an emergency for booting a system from a Zip or LS120, assuming the disk driver is written correctly; or disk drive search code that surveys the USB (and Firewire bus) could be added to the startup recodable RAM and, when the code detects a disk installed in an external drive, it proceeds to load the disk vendor's drive code and the Apple system from the disk. I think the iMac startup code is fixable. Jeff