A friend gave me a few months ago a ForMac FireWire 400 external enclosure. I don't know what kind of optical drive it originally had, but i have IDE LG dvd-rw in it right now.
The problem is that i haven't been able to boot from it on any of my Macs. I've tried on my dual usb iBook, PowerMac G3 B&W, iMac G3, iMac G5... None of them recognize the darn thing as a bootable drive. The discs i used are all perfect, they are bootable once inserted in the internal optical drive on each of the machines. But not a single machine was able to boot from this drive. Am i doing something wrong? I saw a few jumpers inside the enclosure on the controller. But i can't find any manuals to see what they do. More than that, seems like ForMac is long gone...
Any ideas?