Once upon a time, I loved SCSI. (Was: Help! Is this kernel or hardwareproblem?)

[John Abreau]

Benjamin Scott wrote:

>   I remember one of the neat features being the ability to shut down the 
> Powerbook and use the internal hard disk as an external disk for another 
> host.  That would be damn handy to have these days.

That still works. A few months ago I decided to upgrade one of my Macs 
to MacOSX 10.4, and when I tried it I found that my DVD drive in that 
machine was broken. After googling for a solution, I found a key 
combination to hold down while booting that brought the machine up as a 
firewire hard drive, and I was able to install from another Mac onto 
this machine's drive to do the upgrade.

I imagine it probably works equally well with USB2.

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