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Yes, I just used the wrong finger when I typed it out. I never heard of 411, etc., either. Sorry about that. Speaking of bootability, I had an Iomega Hd with a Prolific FW chip (early 2006), it booted OK but didn't reliably mount (in FW mode) after sleep or shut down, had to unplug its power...

I recently had to return a couple of external FireWire/USB hard drives (Iomega and Micronet) because I discovered in the manual that partitioning was not recommended, and my application requires partitioning the HD. I emailed the makers and asked why they didn't recommend it, but have received...

With a iMac G5 iSight (late 2005), I find that FW 400 is about 1.4X faster than USB 2.0 for the same HD (dual interface). Also, most (not all, be careful what you buy) FW HDs can boot OS X, useful for certain backup and "safety clone" schemes, and in case of internal HD failure (it's nice to...