This doesn't sound like a very plausible explanation to me. It sounds
more like someone grasping at straws rather than admit they don't know
what's happening. Unfortunately without more details about your son's
system and what happens on it when it boots, I doubt anyone do more
than guess as to why it is booting slowly.
Out of curiosity, what type of drive does your son's computer boot
from?
FWIW, I would also recommend enabling journaling unless you actually
do discover an astoundingly large performance gap by benchmarking the
drive. Better safe than sorry IMO.
My sons machine is an iMac 24" 2.8 10.6.2 The boot drive is
internal. the external drives are two 2TB Acomdata they are used only
as file storage for video stuff. The problem we have is as time goes
on the Mac takes a long long time booting, If we diconect the
externals it boots right up. So I was told that it's reading
something on the drives and may take a long time to boot due to the
large capacity of them, We can boot sans drives and connect afterward
and all works fine.
JOHN CARMONNE
Yorba Linda USA
sent from my Wally 10.4.11
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