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Copying files to HD is REALLY, REALLY, SLOW...
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
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When I'm booted in classic, it works fine. But when I'm in Panther and try to copy files to my other HD, it only copies at about 10K/sec, sometimes slower. Any suggestions to fix this?
I've already tried reformatting, tried disk repair, and the HD passes SMART.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Is this a FW HD? If so, it's probably got a bad FW controller chip.
Wade
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
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What kind of hard drive is it?
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
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23GB ATA IBM HD, it's loaded internal off my ATA bus.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Wow. 10KB/sec is extremely slow, no matter what. What's the setup of your Mac? Which drive is internal and which is external (if ever)? Source and destination?
Are you familiar with the Terminal? How does it fare when copying files?
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Are you sure that they're both configured correctly for master / slave?
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Bayonne, NJ USA
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Do you have FileVault on?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
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It's a Beige G3. I have the IBM in Slave mode with my CD-ROM in Master mode. FileVault is off. Terminal is just as slow, so is copying files over a network.
The file copying problem only happens in OS X, it works fine in Classic.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: :ИOITAↃO⅃
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Sorry, your post just reminded me too much of this:
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Portland, OR
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Originally posted by olePigeon:
It's a Beige G3. I have the IBM in Slave mode with my CD-ROM in Master mode.
I have had problems with IDE busses in this configuration on PCs in the past... You might try setting the HD to master and unplugging the CD-ROM and see if that improves matters any.
Oh, and the "freelance gig" troll was the first thing I thought of when I saw this topic, too. 
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