> From: Alan Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (SuperMacs List) Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002
> 14:44:25 -0400 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (SuperMacs List) Subject:
> Re: [SM] New to the group
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>
>
> John Steins wrote:
>
>> I do have a bit of a read/write problem with my external Lacie 80 GB Firewire
>> drive. It won't read large Photoshop psd or tiff files but will read large
>> jpegs unless I disable the Lacie Firewire Support extension, in which case I
>> can then quickly open any file of any size from the drive but then won't let
>> me write to it with just the Apple Firewire Support and Firewire Enabler
>> extensions. I'm forced to switch back and forth between these extensions.
>> Crazy.
>>
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>
> I have a EZQuest 60-gb external firewire that is formatted with Hard Disk
> Speed Tools that has firewire support. (All internal drives are running on
> HDST as well because one of the drives is not a Apple supported drive.)
> Anyway, as I reported a while back the throughput had to be dropped down a
> notch from the highest setting for the firewire drive to read and write
> without locking up the system. (HDST has an additional control panel when
> working with a firewire drive.) Since I am not a speed demon and got the
> external drive mainly as a backup and storage (and to migrate to a newer
> machine), the performance penalty was not investigated. Sometimes stability
> counts more then speed in our aging but functional machines. I am not trying
> to sell HDST, but it's been a good compliment to my setup and many others have
> spoken well of the product.
>
> Alan
>
Thank you Alan, I'll try the HDST solution and report back to the group.
John
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