[G4] Slow Second Hard Drive

[Brooks Graham]

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It might help knowing what system you have, as I understand that newer 
systems support "cable select" and older systems do not.

In any event, you might check the jumpers on the drives and make sure 
that the Master/Slave/CS jumpers are set properly on each drive.

- -brooks

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 01:00 AM, skygram at canada.com wrote:

> Hi G4 Listers!
>
> I recently installed a new 120GB-7200rpm Maxtor hard
> drive and it works very well. However my older IBM
> 20GB-5400rpm drive has become very slow. Much slower
> than it should be. For it to function, I must often
> wait 20 to 30 seconds for the little colored ball to
> stop rotating before anything happens.
>
> I have used Disk Doctor 2 and Disk Warrior 3 and still
> no difference in preformance.
>
> I am at a loss to explain what is happening.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Bill
>
- -
Brooks Graham
brooksgraham at mac.com
http://www.brooksgraham.com/

"Speak softly and study Aikido, then you won't need a big stick."

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