Okay here's my question about mac HARDWARE!
I have three hard disks in my Dual 1ghz MDD G4 PowerMac. My main system disk is master on the ATA100 bus and it is 120gb, then there is a backup that is slave on the ATA100 bus that is a quite new Maxtor 200gb. The third drive is the original 80gb that shipped with the computer and it is on the ATA66 bus, this last disk is where I store all my audio files and samples.
I use the computer mainly for audio work and all my playing and surfing and music etc. I used to have the maxtor on the same bus as the audio disk but I would get logic complaining about disk being too slow whenever the maxtor decided to wake itself up for no reason (which happens a lot). In fact i regularly get the syste, stopping for several seconds jsut to wait for my Hard Drives to wake up, even when I am not accessing them. The big 200gb is for movies and backup so I hardly ever actually use it but I still insists on wkaing up for no reason and causing hte system to come to a grinding halt. I had this problem before getting the 200gb but the delays were MUCH shorter i eman they were never more than about 2-3 seconds while now I have to wait about 15 seconds every time I open a menu from the dock or start a program or browse the finder.
Anway, luckily moving the 200gb to the other bus has stopped logic from going nuts and saved my precious live recordings, BUT, and its a big but, Now iTunes pauses everytime the hard disk starts up and general system performance is much worse! Argh, what do I do, are there some settings I can do or do I jsut need to get a new bus or a firewire box for the 200gb?
cheers y'all
I have three hard disks in my Dual 1ghz MDD G4 PowerMac. My main system disk is master on the ATA100 bus and it is 120gb, then there is a backup that is slave on the ATA100 bus that is a quite new Maxtor 200gb. The third drive is the original 80gb that shipped with the computer and it is on the ATA66 bus, this last disk is where I store all my audio files and samples.
I use the computer mainly for audio work and all my playing and surfing and music etc. I used to have the maxtor on the same bus as the audio disk but I would get logic complaining about disk being too slow whenever the maxtor decided to wake itself up for no reason (which happens a lot). In fact i regularly get the syste, stopping for several seconds jsut to wait for my Hard Drives to wake up, even when I am not accessing them. The big 200gb is for movies and backup so I hardly ever actually use it but I still insists on wkaing up for no reason and causing hte system to come to a grinding halt. I had this problem before getting the 200gb but the delays were MUCH shorter i eman they were never more than about 2-3 seconds while now I have to wait about 15 seconds every time I open a menu from the dock or start a program or browse the finder.
Anway, luckily moving the 200gb to the other bus has stopped logic from going nuts and saved my precious live recordings, BUT, and its a big but, Now iTunes pauses everytime the hard disk starts up and general system performance is much worse! Argh, what do I do, are there some settings I can do or do I jsut need to get a new bus or a firewire box for the 200gb?
cheers y'all
