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Picked up a new LaCie 500gB external drive yesterday from J&R (less than 24 hour delivery w/ standard shipping - sweet), partitioned it into 2 volumes and backed up the still-creaking-along iBook - 10.5.8/1.2/768 - in 2 hours and 3 minutes (one account) w/ CCC. The home eMac - 10.4.11/800/1 - (w/ 4 accounts) is still cranking after 14 hours w/ CCC. Looks to be about half finished. Any idea what the holdup might be, or should I just sit on my hands and wait patiently for it to finish?
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USB 1.1 on eMac... yeah, super-duper-slow.
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Yup. My mom's G4 iMac has the same problem and its a pita to use her iPod with it, as iPods of course ditched firewire long ago. A Firewire hard drive is the way to go, but of course the super deals are usually just USB.
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Firewire connected! Power's from USB.
I figured slow, but...
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mrthuse wrote:
Firewire connected! Power's from USB.
I figured slow, but...
that cant be right.
you cannot connect both USB and FW to the same device at the same time
is this a portable drive? FW will power any portable drive no sweat, USB however, will not
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Hmm - maybe yer on to something, jdc. Used same configuration when backing up iBook and the clone took 2 hours and 3 minutes to complete. I'll post back if I discover anything so far ellusive.
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Finally done. Will try another backup sans USB using only firewire and see what happens.
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Yup, second clone's chuggin' right along w/o USB in place at a speed that seems correct. Funny, having both the firewire and the USB plugged in at the same time didn't seem to affect the first transfer at all. Actually, little documentation came w/ the unit and since the 100 gb it replaced needed to be externally powered before firewire was connected, I assumed this one required external power as well. Live and learn.
Thanks so much, jdc. Wouldn't have discovered the bug w/o yer help. Much obliged.
