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Subject: Re: Bootable Firewire Drives
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Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@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,
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Julian Stecklina

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