[X4U] Weird hard drive Copy Issue

[Roger Zimmermann]

Eddie,

Exactly the same problem here regarding the slow login time with my 700 
Mhz ibook.  Based on the number of posts on MacFixit and the Apple 
Discussion forums, this is not an isolated problem.  I have not had an 
opportunity to tabulate the posts by machine types but this is 
certainly an issue that causes problems with 600 and 700 Mhz iBooks.

I have a graphite airport that I use to connect to my ISP via its 
modem.  A partial workaround for me was to go into the network 
preference panel and select Airport.  Then choose "By default join A 
Specific Network" but leave the network name blank.  This helps but 
still does not achieve the sub one minute startups that were the norm 
with 10.3.5 and earlier software versions.

Roger


On Feb 03, 2005, at 20:59, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:

> On 2/3/05 5:57 PM, revDAVE <coolcat at hostalive.com> wrote:
>
>> Q:  so - is everybody happy with 10.3.7? -  Is it safe to upgrade at 
>> this
>> point? ( I was under the impression that there were certain problems
>> especially related towards FireWire in  10.3.6 and also 10.3.7 -  but 
>> maybe
>> I was wrong...?)
>
> I experienced FireWire problems with 10.3.7. Specifically, I had a 
> bootable
> backup of my 10.3.6 system. When I overwrote that with my 10.3.7 
> system, the
> backup was no longer bootable. I've since solved that problem thanks to
> members of a different OS X list.
>
> I have also experienced slow boot times with 10.3.6 and 10.3.7. It 
> takes me
> nearly two minutes from chime to operating mode on my 600MHz G3 iBook 
> and it
> little more than a minute previously. The slowdown occurs after the 
> Welcome
> to OS X screen has disappeared and before the menulets have appeared. 
> This
> is with autologin turned on and startup items disabled.
>
> Eddie Hargreaves
>
>
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