[X4U] Re: Weird hard drive Copy Issue

[George Harvey]

I am definitely unhappy with my update to 10.3.7, and wish that I had 
stayed with 10.3.6 on my main drive. After I updated, and installed the 
latest security update, I found that startup was very slow, and that 
MacChampion had timed out. Then I found that all connections to the 
Internet were very slow also, and that it took about ten times as long 
to start Mail or a browser as before. Each new connection to a web page 
took a long time in most cases except for web sites that stayed 
connected and did not ask for a return signal. Other applications were 
slow to start up even though they did not contact the internet. 
However, the 4 FireWire drives that I left connected work perfectly, 
and seem a tad faster than before the update. I have tried everything I 
could think of to eliminate the slow operation, including most of the 
suggestions on the Web. Some things are considerably faster than before 
the update, for example RagTime, Tex-Edit Plus, Mariner Write and Adobe 
Reader 7 are much snappier, folders open faster, Find works faster. My 
system seems to be rodk-solid and working properly except for the 
slowness.

I am using a 1.8 GHZ G5 with 1GB RAM. I updated all 3 of my FireWire 
hard drives (Granite Digital 120 GB, LaCie 120 GB, LaCie 250GB), and I 
can boot up on all of them, and absolutely no problem there. They have 
always worked fine from the very first installation. When I need to 
look up a lot of stuff on the Internet, I use a FireWire drive running 
10.3.6 in order to greatly speed up my work. I have a lot of work to 
do, and not much time to spend on maintenance so I can not try every 
thing possible to find and try to fix slowdown problems. I began using 
Macs a long time ago because I could get more done in a day than with 
my Windows PC, I had less trouble with spam, and installing or updating 
  software took so little time.

I would welcome any suggestions about eliminating the slow startup.

George Harvey


On Feb 3, 2005, revDAVE 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...?)