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Apr 24, 2014 5:32 AM in response to gcakmnby a brody,Firewire and USB can only run independently. For the most part only Firewire can boot iBook G4s.
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Apr 26, 2014 6:41 AM in response to gcakmnby gcakmn,My queston has become irrelevant for me, at least for immediate needs. I've found a Firewire drive I like that will play well with my current drive.
But, it would still be interesting and perhaps helpful to someone sometime to know what if any mixing of connectivities might work . . .
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Apr 26, 2014 9:43 AM in response to gcakmnby K Shaffer,For the most part, these drives with USB and FW don't share to the other;
the intent was to allow either one or the other. FW for older Macs that may
be able to boot from a HDD (with oxford chipset) or USB2.0/3.0 for storage
or for newer Intel Macs that may boot a clone from USB. However a Mac
could use FW or USB when both are available, separately to boot clones
if the computer hardware supports both. And if the external HD does.
Depending on the circuitry in the external enclosure, are the possibilities.
A logic circuit and extra cost, may allow the ports to share data across
the two separately supported channels. Lacking that, most can't do it.
Usually that is because they are like different frequencies, no converter.
However you could try. Or contact the maker, to see if you get a reply,
then share that information along with enclosure brand/model number.
That may be curious, conditional, if it were to work at all with one setup.
Good luck