[X4U] Weird hard drive Copy Issue

[John Baltutis]

On 02/03/05, revDAVE <coolcat at hostalive.com> wrote:
>
> g4/450 osx 10.3.5
>
> Recently I added 2 external FireWire drives to my mac G4. Short-story: now -
> when I attempt to copy from the FireWire drive to an internal drive - it
> will copy  10 or 20 MB -  and then stops ...   But I am able to hit cancel
> and after a long wait - the copy dialog window will vanish - and then
> everything crawls along for a while - and if I do not re- boot immediately I
> will get a kernel panic.
>
> -  it seems that I am able to write to the drives OK - just not copy from
>them...
>
>  I have run disk warrior - repaired with disk utility - and I cannot find
> anything wrong...
>
> -  also - when I boot up in system 9 everything seems to work OK.
>
> -  also I tried swapping out drives and cables -  and it seems to appear
> that this is an OS x type problem rather than a FireWire hardware issue -
> but I am not sure about this at all...
>
> -  are there any hard drive related preferences that I can throw out in OSX
> 10.3.5?
>
> -  I really do not want to upgrade to 10.3.7 yet if I don't have to...

I don't understand your reluctance to install 10.3.7, but, that said,
create another admin user account, log into it, and see if that fixes your
problem. If so, then something's amiss in your old user account. Slowly
copy the preference files from the old to the new until you identify the
culprit-or reset things the way you want them in the new account and
eventually delete the old one. If not, then run the 10.3.5 Combo updater
and report back.