[X4U] USB 2.0 vs Firewire?

[Randy B. Singer]

On Apr 28, 2007, at 5:54 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> Not all Firewire HD's can be booted from.  I have two Firewire  
> inclosures,
> one I can boot from, one I can't.  Of course the one I can boot  
> from has a
> dead powersupply, so I've got a power brick plugged into it now.

At this point in time, every modern Macintosh (i.e. made within the  
last few years) should be able to boot from any FireWire hard drive  
currently on the market, no matter what chipset it has in it, and no  
matter what drive mechanism it uses, if that drive is properly set up  
for your Macintosh.

However, for some reason, the OS X installer won't work with all  
FireWire hard drives.  In that case you will need to clone a copy of  
OS X onto your FireWire drive to make it bootable.

In the Bombich Forums is a thread on how to properly prepare your  
external HD before cloning to it so that it will be bootable:
<http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=4084>


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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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