Hmm.. I did buy a newer faster 6.4gb drive a while back. And you're quite possibly right about the fragmentation. I'll give it a try again today and see if I have any better results. I'm quite interested in running the machine on just CF since with the hdd spun down the battery lasts soooo much longer :)
Thanks for the suggestions. -nils On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 07:29:53AM -0400 or thereabouts, Brian wrote: > >I took my 128MB cf card from the camera that had about 80MB > >of pictures on it, and transferred them to the hdd. Now, > >it could either be that the system was pausing while accessing > >the hdd, but I believe it was while the machine was accessing > >the CF card. I did turn on VM and tell it to use the VM, but > >at the time didn't have any memory intensive apps on the > >machine. I'm going to try again in a few days, but I suspect > >will find the exact same results. > > > >Has anyone else tried this yet? I know a few ppl on the list > >were talking about it, but don't remember seeing any good > >feedback. > > I copy photos from my camera's media (smartmedia adapter) to the 1400 all > the time, no pauses in the system that I notice; I've got the G3 with a > faster 20 gig drive though. It just copies. when I boot from the CF card > to run Speeddisk (I was the first one I think to do the CF system disk > thing, and it was for the purpose of a bootable Norton tools volume this > way) the thing runs just fine; and I don't notice that it's hugely slow or > anything; it's fun to have it be COMPLETELY silent, no HD sounds :) > > The 1400's bus speed is anaemic and it's not made for much multitasking no > matter what :/ I would blame it on the VM but I usually have VM turned on > on my 1400 as well since 64 just isn't much. > > If you have a stock HD, those are very slow, just buying something modern > will be about a 2X speedup in your subjective feeling of "speed". And your > drive might be fragmented badly? > > Anyway copying files off my Smartmedia is certainly not annoying, works > pretty fast and smooth here. > > B -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
