Snow Leopard and Firewire 400

[Shuttleworth]

Anyone else noticed FW400 being very slow after converting to SL?

My Aperture library is on a 1TB drive in a FW400/USB2 enclosure.
After SL install, importing became painfully slow, taking 40 mins to import less than 2GB from SD card.

I did the usual Aperture things, vacuuming, rebuilding the library, deleting the plist, no better.

I tried moving the file from the SD card to the FW drive using finder, and again it said it'd take 40mins.

I copied it to my desktop then tried to copy it to the FW drive, again 40 mins.

I connected the drive using the USB2 cable, and it did it in 'about a minute'.

I guess the issue is probably compatibility of the FW drive firmware with SL, but I've no idea how I'd update that!

 

[lannister80]

Hmm, I have a 2008 Mac Pro and I haven't noticed any slowdown on FW400.

I ran Time Machine for the first time since the install, and it did 14GB of backup to my external enclosure in a reasonable amount of time (not sure what, but certainly not hours and hours).

 

[michael.lauden]

yeah i haven't noticed any changes on my Mac mini either w/ the FW400.

sorry bud :/

 

[Shuttleworth]

I've read that some people have problems and some don't, it must be related to my particular HD enclosure.