S-L-O-W Firewire... |
November, 18, 2002 1:27 PM |
bondtrails |
Everyone, I am fortunate enough to have purchased a PCI firewire card that is recognized by OS X and doesn't cause any kernel panics. But....file transfer is unbearably slow. It took nearly 11 HOURS to transfer a 75 meg file!!!! This is really way to slow.... The card works great under 9.1--file transfers are quite zippy. Anyone know what could be going on? --Bondster!! |
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RE: S-L-O-W Firewire... |
December, 16, 2002 12:43 PM |
rpertierra |
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I remember saying this on another thread... the Macally combo firewire/usb and perhaps other cards are expecting PCI slot rev level 2.1. My Powermac 7300 has PCI slot rev level 2.0. The firewire drive sometimes worked but slowly. The iPod with iTunes and my digital camera with iMovie definitely did not. I ordered a Sonnet Tango card that does support PCI rev level 2.0 -- will let you know how it works out. |
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RE: S-L-O-W Firewire... |
December, 14, 2002 4:13 AM |
sprocketworks |
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I had a very similar situaton. I have a 9600 G4/450 with 10.2.2 and 9.2.2. I put in a MacAlly firewire/USB 2.0 combo card. I also have a fire wire drive that I built from a 15 gig powerbook drive and an OWC portable case. The drive works well on my friend's I-Mac, my powerbook lombard with a RATOC card, a friends I-book running X. But connected to my computer in 9.x and 10.2.2, freezes, lock ups, and slowwwww transfers when it did work. I was about to try to change the firmware on the drive (even though it is newer then the software patch (hey I was depserate) and I just reintialized the drive. Actually upon boot up, they system said the drive was unrecognizable (this even after 6 or 7 disk warrior repairs I ran), do I want to reinitialze? I did - and poof!!! It works perfectly now. The driver vesion (under get info) said the drive (before re-init) was firewire 1.1 - now it is firewire 1.2.3. Try it and let me know. Doug |
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RE: S-L-O-W Firewire... |
November, 20, 2002 7:21 PM |
marcush |
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I've had 10.2.2 installed for a while too but have not seen this problem. I have a Ratoc Firewire/USB 2.0 card installed and reads and writes are pretty fast. I copied 7Gigs from my Firewire drive to an internal ATA 100 drive the other night and it took about 11 minutes? I will try QuickbenchX tonight if it is free to see what the actual number are. The Ratoc uses an Opti+ chip for the firewire bus. I have a CompUSA Firewire/USB combo card that I used previously. It had abysmal write speeds of only 4MB/s in OS 9.x.x. and reads of 13MB/s. This is as measured by ATTO tools. |
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RE: S-L-O-W Firewire... |
November, 20, 2002 12:50 PM |
bondtrails |
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Hey there Paul, sorry to hear about your Firewire woes. To answer your question, I was transferring from my firewire drive to my built-in SCSI drive. The whole things been pretty flaky. Just last night I was able to transfer about 28 meg of data rather quickly...but some times I get that painfully slow transfer. Maybe during the boot process something doesn't get enabled? --Bondster!! |
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RE: S-L-O-W Firewire... |
November, 20, 2002 2:40 AM |
gchron |
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What is the chipset that your card has ian??? |
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RE: S-L-O-W Firewire... |
November, 20, 2002 1:57 AM |
paul_findley |
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My firewire drive has just become incredibly slow under read access. Don't know why. 10.2.2 has been installed now for a couple of weeks, and I noticed the slowdown yesterday. Intech's QuickBenchX shows about 1MB/s for read, and a more reasonable 16MB/s for write. Both are much faster under OS 9, but I think the write performance is about normal for X. Problem is the slow read. I also have the OWC card. I hope that isn't the problem. That was the recent replacement for a flakey firewireDirect.com card. bondtrails: Were you tranfering from (read) or to (write) the firewire drive? |
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RE: S-L-O-W Firewire... |
November, 18, 2002 6:20 PM |
ian |
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http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=4480&Item=OWCLUCT5X That is the OWC card I have. It's in the second slot from the top, right under the video card. It could be that yours is no good unless something in the chipset is weird. |
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RE: S-L-O-W Firewire... |
November, 18, 2002 3:28 PM |
bondtrails |
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Hey there ian, I wonder if we have the same OWC card? I got mine for about $19 bucks (it is a 3 port firewire card, 2 ports are the standard size, the 3rd is the mini size). My machine is a Umax S900 and the card is in slot #1. I am running OS X Server 10.2.1. I wonder if that could be the difference? I doubt it. How can I check if we have similar cards? Maybe my card is no good?? --Bondster!! |
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RE: S-L-O-W Firewire... |
November, 18, 2002 1:37 PM |
ian |
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Well, what system are you using and what model machine do you have? I have a 9500 with an OWC FireWire card and 10.2.2 that copied 3.3 gigs of stuff this morning for me in about 12 minutes. |