[Thinkpad] Portable HD, booting from firewire?

[Andrew in Ann Arbor]

> I have had good results using a MacAlly PHR-250CC USB 2.0 and FireWire
> (IEEE-1394) 2.5" external hard disk drive enclosure with hard disk 
> drives
> from Fujitsu, Hitachi and Toshiba with an IBM ThinkPad T23 and a T43p 
> running
> XP and Vista.
> For the T23, the enclosure was used with an IBM FireWire (IEEE-1394) 
> CardBus adapter.

I'm assuming you can't boot from the firewire drive through the PC card?

Andrew in Ann Arbor
technology is the answer, what was the question?