on 14/8/01 6:44, Jake Williamson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> we have a 8500/180 that sits in the corner with our dvd-ram drive (scsi), cd
> burner (scsi), powerlook scanner (scsi), and two firewire lacie drives (20
> and 40 gig). firewire support is in the form of a 3 port pci card. the
> machine also has a 100/10 ethernet card in it.
> in the last few weeks connecting to the 8500 and the firewire drives has
> gone from useable to completely unusable - the speed decrease has been
> really big to the point where picking the 8500 from the chooser takes a
> minute and a half to mount it on the desktop! copying files between machine
> has also gone from a regular network speed to virtually nill.
>
> funny thing is, if you connect out from the 8500 to any of the other
> machines on the network, everything works at a decent speed. we've tried
> reinstalling drivers, different extensions sets, the works.
>
> does any one have an idea why this machine is sooooo slooooowww to connect
> to??
What machine are you using to connect to the 8500? Did you recently
upgrade/downgrade the client machine or the server machine (hardware,
software?)? Are you sure the slow down is caused by your server or by your
client? Do you have third Mac with which to test the network?
Also, is there a chance you installed an ethernet device that is operating
at 10 base T (as opposed to 100 base T... but that wouldn't result in a
minute and a half login time, just slower copies) or that you changed the
wiring set up between your computers.
Simple & silly solutions I can think of trying:
(1) rebuild all the affected desktops (the two Firewire drives, the 8500's
SCSI internal drive, the drive(s) on your client machine(s)).
Press and hold the command (Apple/clover key)-option before the Finder
appears (but, after your extensions load) and release when you are prompted
to do a rebuild of the desktops (which you OK). BTW The Apple approved
method is to go into the Extensions manager, select the *base* OS 8/9
(whatever OS you're running) extensions list, restart, and then hold down
the command-option keys after the extension icons load but before the Finder
appears (until the dialogue box pops up).
(2) have the 8500 act as a server with none of its external hardware
connected/turned on. Is it still slow to connect to? Then, if it's now fast,
slowly plug in each device until you track down the source of your slow
down. Then, if you can't figure out the reason for the slow down report back
to the list & I'm sure someone will know what's going on.
(3) delete the AppleShare Prefs file in the System Folder:Preferences folder
(on the client) and restart.
Good luck.
Eric.
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