USB vs. Firewire in external boot?

[norcalrivercat]

My question isn't a software issue more of a personal opinion. So I have been booting externally through USB 2.0, and it can be rediculously slow, so I can't stand it. For whatever reason I can not get my drive to boot externally, works fine externally in a drive case, but when I try to boot internally I get "still waiting for root device" (this is after install). This is really strange to me because I have gotten it to boot internally prevously. But I was wondering if booting from an external firewire drive (using 400 to 600 firewire cord) would make using leopard noticably faster than usb. The usb boot runs quite fast sometimes, but it's really slow when running lots of programs. Anyone have any personal experience from booting externally with firewire?

 

thanks for your input.

[kinkster]

You might want to try firewire, but the "still waiting for root device" might be easily solved. It means theres a problem with your hard drive. Try changing which SATA port you internal hard drive is plugged into, thats how I fixed it.

[MacUser2525]

With my external drive that does both firewire and USB the firewire cannot be partitioned properly to boot from it I just get an error connected by USB it works fine. Also I have found the firewire device seems to transfer about 5mb/s slower than when connected via USB.

[norcalrivercat]

Thanks for the info. i wish I could just switch my plug in for my sata hard drive but im on a laptop. i still don't get how i got it to work before.