FireWire in Tiger

16 Aug 2005

I'm getting the distinct impression that either my iMac is starting to die or the FireWire drivers in Tiger are screwed. Since updating to Tiger, any large data transfer tends to freeze everything if it maxes out the FireWire bus. I moved my home directory to an external drive and performance dropped notably with Tiger; since moving back to the internal disk, Tiger's nice and fast again and I've been able to re-enable Spotlight - next stop Widgets.

Anyway, I'm not alone judging from comments at Macintouch.

Posted by Rob Buckley on Tuesday, August 16, 2005 at 12:05 AM | 1 TrackBacks

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FireWire flummox from The Hardware is Not Enough on December 20, 2005 3:02 PM

The FireWire problem I was having seems sorted now. Still no idea what's going on. I managed to fix the problem of the crap speed and general instability of things by connecting the DVD burner and the hard drive to... Read More

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