Cloning slowness?

[back2mac]

Originally Posted by dnanian

You're very likely encountering a hardware problem, back2mac. Anything else on FireWire?

I believe you may be correct. Since your post [thank you for your prompt reply] - I have tried disconnecting the LaCie drive, Tiger is now fine.

If I do mount the drive - if I delete the SD backup - the drive responds correctly. Perhaps that partition is faulty.

[back2mac]

I reformatted and partitioned my LaCie external drive and ran SD.

12.2 gig backed up in 17 mins. 30 at a copy speed of between 12 and 13 meg p sec.

This compares to over 2 hours before the re-partitioning.

[dnanian]

Great, glad to hear it.