System slows to a crawl when 1394 device plugged in???

bluesignsbluesigns
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Running 10.4

on a new partition of

G4 733



when i plug in my hard drives to this machine

it slows to a crawl and seems on the verge of a crash.



i put the devices away-

problem solved.



???



both external firewire hard drives.

one's a maxtor 80gb

the other i think is a hitachi in a generic case.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    project2501project2501 Posts: 433member
    I'm wondering if it's spotlight trying to create search table for your harddrives, that should take some time, but after sorting they should woork normally. Try to put those drives to spotlights ignore list
  • Reply 2 of 3
    bluesignsbluesigns Posts: 315member
    thank you.



    where/how i do that?
  • Reply 3 of 3
    project2501project2501 Posts: 433member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by bluesigns

    where/how i do that?



    from spotlight settings under system preferences.
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