[X4U] Slow Finder on Second Hard Drive

[Philip J Robar]

On Jan 10, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I put a second 200 gig HD Maxtor 16MB cache in my dual G5 works  
> fine except for when I double click it to open it often takes 5 sec  
> or more before the Finder opens it giving me the beachball. The  
> original drive that came with the machine takes no time at all to  
> open. Same thing when I’m opening documents it takes quite a few  
> seconds before the drive contents show up in the open dialog box.  
> Otherwise the drive seems to be performing fine. Why would this  
> slow to open be happening?

Check your Energy Saver Preferences panel, is "Put the hard disk(s)  
to sleep when possible" checked? If so then your new drive is just  
slow at waking up.

Phil

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