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Firewire causing a slowdown...
Authored by: talus on Jan 16, '03 09:04:47PM

At risk of going off topic, I had been chaining my camcorder off my Lacie CDR and doing a bunch of pluging and unpluging of the firewire cables (both from the device and the CPU) when I suddenly experienced a massive system slowdown. OS X apps and windows were painfully slow, and an OS X boot took about 5+ minutes. A look at process viewer showed nothing out of the ordinary. I tried booting into OS 9 and got a bomb. But booting from an OS 9 CD was OK. Finally I unplugged all the firewire devices and rebooted - things were back to a normal. I then plugged the firewire devices back in and life is great. Thought this might help someone.



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