Slow firewire transfer speed in Snow Leopard

Hello,
Everything works fine in Snow Leopard, besides copying large files to my external Freecom firewire hard drives. Having a dual boot system with also Leopard installed, the problem only exists in Snow Leopard. NVRAM/PRAM reset doesn't help.
Does anyone have a clue ?
Thanks in advance,
Beliarus

I have a FireWire 400 HD, it has a JMicron chipset (pretty generic but works great). I worked wonderfully on Leopard without a single glitch ever.
Now, after upgrading to SL, I experience the same as you and the drive is not responding well, hanging constantly and experiencing really slow transfer rates, that make it unusable (all applications that try to open something from it eventually hang). It's not a temporary glitch, even after several reboots and connecting/disconnecting the drive. The same drive under USB2 (it also has USB2 interface) works perfect (but I really want my firewire back).
I hope Apple fixes it! Definitely a bug.

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Jan 3, 2015, 03:45:32 PM /Li

Your Mac has been considerably altered from its factory configuration. Given certain modifications, some of which are described below, it is not reasonable to expect it to operate properly.
1. Back up your Mac. Your report indicates the last backup was performed a month ago. No more backups can be created because the backup volume's capacity is insufficient.
2. Uninstall any McAfee products. Your Mac cannot operate properly with it installed.
One or both of these removal instructions may be applicable.
How to install or uninstall McAfee Internet Security for Mac
How to uninstall and reinstall McAfee Agent 4.x on Macintosh computers
3. Your Mac has been affected by MacPaw "CleanMyMac". Uninstall it, but beware its uninstallation instructions are not completely effective. Depending on exactly what you used it to do, a complete erasure and reconfiguration may be required.
4. Update OS X. Open the App Store and install all Apple recommended updates.
5. If you require a VPN I recommend OS X's native VPN, not Cisco's flawed implementation of it.
6. If you elect to use Adobe Flash Player you must keep it maintained. The version installed is outdated.
7. If you elect to use Google's products you must accept the detrimental effects they will have on a Mac's performance.
8. Adware is installed and will interfere with Internet browsing. For an explanation or how this may have occurred, how to avoid it in the future, and for Apple's recommended solution read How to install adware.

Do i have to have a firewire drive to hold snow leopard

i plan on updating to lion. presently i have snow leopard and am using a 250gb firewire drive as my backup. rather than to go thru the partitioning process, i'll probably purchase an additional external drive to serve as backup and keep the drive filled with snow leopard when i want to boot it.
vice versa, i may want to transfer snow leopard to a 1tb usb drive i already have, and boot it when i need snow leopard. thus, i would use the former snow leopard backup firewire drive as the new lion backup drive. whew!
any suggestions as to whether or not usb would be ok?
thanks,

lanny, not quite sure of your question but i believe this answers it: 4 usb 2.0 ports and a firewire 800 port. also have a combination usb/firewire hub.
drives are firewire 400(with adapter cable for 800) and usb 2.

Slow firewire 800 speeds on early 2008 macbook pro 17"

I've got an early 2008 macbook pro 17". I'm transferring files between a WD mybook studio II (2TB) configured as raid-1 to a sata dock with a seagate 1TB drive daisy-chained over firewire 800. both 1TB drives in the WD mybook and the 1TB seagate in the sata dock are 7.2k rpm. I'm running a block-level clone FROM the mybook TO the seagate using Carbon Copy Cloner which i would think would be the fastest real-world test i could do. I'm getting pegged speeds of 40MB/s. This is on par with other regular read/write speeds i've noticed in the past. this seems way off. to remove variables i unplugged my two firewire 400 drives (as i've heard that may slow things down, even though they're not doing anything during the clone) and it SLOWED DOWN the fw800 clone to 38MB/s ! plugging the two firewire 400 drives back in during the clone brought the speeds back up to 40MB/s. i don't have a unibody 2009 mbp that had the firewire issues.
1) HDD's should read at 70-80MB/s and at least write at 59 MB/s, why am i not getting that using firewire 800 and two 7200 rpm drives ?? (i know the wd mybook is raid-1 but i'm reading from it...shouldn't effect read performance)
2) (less important) why on earth would having two firewire 400 drives plugged in and inactive make the firewire 800 transfer speeds go up/down 2MB/s
i'm willing to experiment with anyone's suggestions. huge thanks in advance.

i have a similar problem.
i have a new seagate freeagent 1tb drive w/FW800, FW400 and USB2.0 ports, and its connected via the FW800 port/cable to my macbook pro, and read/write speeds are really slow, particularly read speeds.
i'm currently working on an audio project with around 15 audio tracks running at once, and it chokes the drive ('HD overload' errors), so i've done some benchmark testing using Drive Genius and Xbench. the results show that the drive is averaging around 12mb/s read speed, and around 26mb/s write speed. grim.
i tried the drive with the FW400 connection on my missus' old imac g5, and its much faster than my mbp's FW800 connection, so i decided to try the drive back on my machine with OSX booted in Safe mode, and benchmark it again. the results are massively different; the FW800 connection is very fast (as you'd expect).
both the tests were done with all my peripherals attached (usb hub, ethernet cable, usb2 ext. drive) so i don't think the problem is with those.
what i'm wondering is if there are any known system extensions that can screw with the FW bus speeds? if not, any pointers as to where i should start troubleshooting?
many thanks!

Slower Network Transfer Speeds with .7

Since upgrading to .7, I've noticed slow transfer speeds. For example, when transferring one large file, I get 11MB/sec on average. When transferring a bunch of smaller files, I get about 1 - 1.5MB/sec. I remember is being faster in .6
This is transferring files from my Mac Pro to my Time Capsule, using Gigabit Ethernet.
Can someone let me know what speeds you are getting when transffering a large file from a Mac Pro to a TC and also a bunch of small files from a Mac Pro to a Time Capsule. (or any NAS drive)
I used Activity Monitor to test the speeds. Thanks.

Does your PC have a FireWire port? you can use IP over FireWire for better throughput than the wired ethernet.
You can't use link aggregation in this case since it requires multiple interfaces of the same type (e.g. two gigabit ethernet cards), but you cannot mix media such as AirPort and Ethernet.
The alternative would be to install a gigabit ethernet card in your PC. You'd at least then get gigabit ethernet speed between the two devices which is also a step up.

Extremely slow Mac after updating to Snow Leopard from Leopard

Hi, I just updated to Snow Leopard from Leopard, and now everything is extremely slow, things keep crashing, freezing etc. What did I do wrong? How do I fix it?

Do this:
Reinstall OS X without erasing the drive
Do the following:
1. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
2. Reinstall Snow Leopard
If the drive is OK then quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed with reinstalling OS X. Note that the Snow Leopard installer will not erase your drive or disturb your files. After installing a fresh copy of OS X the installer will move your Home folder, third-party applications, support items, and network preferences into the newly installed system.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.

SMB Slow connection with upgrade to SnoW Leopard and Windows Clients.

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Dear,
I have now upgraded my MAC OS X LEOPARD 10,5,8 to new SNOW LEOPARD 10,6,2 and if some problems disappear I have a newer big one !
Now every time a Windows CLient try to connect to a SMB Share of SL server that take a long time about 10-15 seconds to open after that depending on client OS that could be nice for a moment (windows 7 and XP) or browsing stay very slow like for 2003 server connecting to Share on S.Leopard.
Could you please help me.
My SL are the main SMB share computer with all data it is connect like other clients to AD (SBS2003).
I have a SBS2003 server that are Master of Domain
and a Server 2008 acting like Terminal Server also member server of domain.
Here are kind of log I receive from SMBD.LOG: I suppose the Credentials problem when connecting are my explanation but how to avoid that !
2009/11/14 13:37:06, 2, pid=64803 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/smbd/reply.c:reply_special(332)
netbios connect: name1=MACSRV name2=NOMAD
2009/11/14 13:37:06, 2, pid=64803 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/smbd/reply.c:reply_special(339)
netbios connect: local=macsrv remote=nomad, name type = 0
2009/11/14 13:37:08, 2, pid=64794 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/lib/module.c:dosmb_loadmodule(64)
Module '/usr/lib/samba/auth/odsam.dylib' loaded
2009/11/14 13:37:10, 2, pid=64803 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/smbd/sesssetup.c:setupnew_vcsession(1273)
setupnew_vcsession: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources.
2009/11/14 13:37:10, 2, pid=64803 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/lib/module.c:dosmb_loadmodule(64)
Module '/usr/lib/samba/auth/odsam.dylib' loaded
2009/11/14 13:37:18, 2, pid=64803 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/smbd/sesssetup.c:setupnew_vcsession(1273)
setupnew_vcsession: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources.
2009/11/14 13:37:28, 0, pid=64803 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/lib/opendirectory.c:getopendirectoryauthenticator(247)
failed to read DomainAdmin credentials, err=67 fd=15 errno=2
2009/11/14 13:37:28, 0, pid=64803 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/lib/opendirectory.c:opendirectoryuser_auth_and_sessionkey(580)
dsDoDirNodeAuthOnRecordType gave -14091 eDSAuthMethodNotSupported
2009/11/14 13:37:28, 0, pid=64803 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/auth/authodsam.c:opendirectory_smb_pwd_checkntlmv1(387)
opendirectoryuser_auth_and_sessionkey gave -14091 eDSAuthMethodNotSupported
2009/11/14 13:37:28, 0, pid=64803 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/lib/opendirectory.c:getopendirectoryauthenticator(247)
failed to read DomainAdmin credentials, err=67 fd=28 errno=2
2009/11/14 13:37:28, 2, pid=64803 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/auth/auth.c:checkntlmpassword(309)
checkntlmpassword: authentication for user fabrice -> fabrice -> fabrice succeeded
2009/11/14 13:37:28, 2, pid=64803 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/lib/module.c:dosmb_loadmodule(64)
Module '/usr/lib/samba/vfs/darwin_streams.dylib' loaded
2009/11/14 13:37:28, 2, pid=64803 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/lib/module.c:dosmb_loadmodule(64)
Module '/usr/lib/samba/vfs/darwinacl.dylib' loaded
2009/11/14 13:37:28, 2, pid=64803 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/lib/module.c:dosmb_loadmodule(64)
Module '/usr/lib/samba/vfs/notify_kqueue.dylib' loaded
2009/11/14 13:37:28, 1, pid=64803 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/smbd/service.c:makeconnectionsnum(1092)
nomad (192.168.2.20) connect to service NetDown initially as user fabrice (uid=501, gid=20) (pid 64803)
I also have some kind of following message:
2009/11/14 13:35:18, 0, pid=64579 /SourceCache/samba/samba-235/samba/source/lib/utilsock.c:readdata(534)
read_data: read failure for 4 bytes to client 192.168.2.20. Error = Connection reset by peer
NOte that initialy I don't have problem with MAC OS Client but to be sure they use SMB I have desactived AFP server on SNOW LEOPARD SERVER and now they can't browse the share in finder but when connection via COMMAND+K and SMB://server/share that give now the same error but a little bit faster than windows clients.
Could you help me to troubleshout that problem ?
Thanks for your help.
Felee
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Dear CarlosGBA,
So when you put 2 computers of your network in WORKGROUP in place of DOMAIN the 38 others works fine ? Strange ?
I have about 15 computers, some are already in workgroup other are linux smb other MAC, the data server are MAC OS X SL, the problem appear for all windows machines, I have try to dissable NTLMV2 and Kerberos since it is probably the faulty element with opendirectory,but always without success !
I don't know what I can do to trouble shout, I hope next release 10.6.3 come soon and correct about all SMB problem ! Probably a dream only ! Since I ask my self if Apple want to correct something andwhy is this problem let without solutionso long ! For a company it is a big problem.I suppose that Apple never read this forum and never answer our problem ! May be I should contact the support phone to be helped !
Thanks for you help.

LR 2.5 slows down after upgrading to Snow Leopard

This is my first post, so first of all I'd like to say hello to everybody here and apologize for my poor english
My computer is an iMAC with an Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD and a graphic card NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS with 512 MB VRAM.
The LR database is contains, up to now, about 5000 photos most of them in NEF format (my camera is a Nikon D300)
In the last month I noticed that the performance slowed down consistently as thumbnails refresh started taking a long time as well as editing photos and the overall LR2 (executing at 64bits) working.
I started monitoring the system, but despite the low LR2 performances I still had a lot of free RAM and the cores weren't really working a lot.
I can't say this for sure, but I could bet that the performance problems began with the upgrade to Snow Leopard.
Can anybody help me to solve this issue?
Thanks a lot in advance
Roberto

Ian Lyons wrote:
Lightroom performance should not have deteriorated as a result of upgrading to Snow Leopard. Things that you should check are:
1. that you are indeed running Lightroom in 64-bit mode (open System info under Help menu and check that Application Architecture shows x64)
2. that you have all of your previews rendered to at least Standard-size
3. that you have at least 20% free hard disk space
You should also run the Catalog Optimisation option in Catalog Settings
1. Yes, LR2 was running in 64 bit mode before upgrading to Snow Leopard, then (don't know why) gets back to 32 just after the upgrade and I manually set it to 64 bit (checked in the application and on the process monitoring while running)
2. I have the preview rendered 1:1 in the folder I'm working on (done again tonight)
3. I have 55% free HD space
4. I run a Catalog Optimization many times, The last one was tonight
In other words I've checked and tried all these things many times. I've red on the internet that it might be a geforce 8800 issue, but I've found only windows references. Don't forget that neither RAM nor CPU are stressed when LR2 is working and all other applications run normally

Slow fileshare transfer speeds with Lion Server

I'm running Lion Server on a Mac Mini and using SMB to share files between the server and both Windows and Mac machines. I can't figure out why I can only get 2 Mb/s transfer speeds between the server and the other machines. I'm quite certain I'm not limited by my network and the disk write speeds clearly exceed 2 Mb/s. Any suggestions for boosting this speed or is this an actual limit of SMB or Lion Server?

Have a similar issue on a Macbook Pro mi 2010 : since the 10.7.3 update, Samba file sharing (to access a FreeBsd server over the LAN) is extremely slow. I mean I can't work normally since the update (3 weeks).
I've reported the bug to Apple. I think it is a bug limited to some machine version (because other mac in the office do not have the issue)

Audio Good - Video 2x Speed since Snow Leopard

Ever since installing Snow Leopard, my Quicktime exports from both FinalCut Pro and now Turbo.264 HD come out with good audio, but the video is double in speed.
Does anyone have a fix for this anomaly? It is really hampering my video work, which is WHY I own a Mac.

Ever since installing Snow Leopard, my Quicktime exports from both FinalCut Pro and now Turbo.264 HD come out with good audio, but the video is double in speed.
Does anyone have a fix for this anomaly? It is really hampering my video work, which is WHY I own a Mac.

Random daisychained Firewire drive disconnects under Snow Leopard

OK... so I thought this was specific to my hard drives. However, we're not starting to see the problem though out the studio.
Plugging a single firewire drive into a machine running Snow Leopard has no issues. However... if you daisy-chain firewire drives then they will randomly disconnect. The connection will last 2-5 minutes tops before it just drops the drives as if someone had unplugged them.
We finally verified this on a total of three machines using various hard drives.... ensuring that we were taking specific drives out of the mix.

Next time you plug in the drive, see if it shows up in
Disk Utility. Want to see if the OS is recognizing it
and just not mounting it. If it doesn't show up there,
try the command line version by using the following
command:
diskutil list

Painfully slow internet after upgrading to Snow Leopard

hi all, i recently upgraded to Slow leopard.
My internet has soon become painfully slow, taking (literally) minutes to load pages. I have checked my modem & router, they seem to be fine as my iPhone & Vista laptop run perfectly on the same network.
does anybody know what this could be?

If you have not done so since upgrading to Snow Leopard, you should run Disk Utility and use +Repair Disk Permissions+.
Have you used Software Update to apply Apple's latest updates after upgrading to Snow Leopard. If there are updates, you should run it a second time to ensure there were no dependent updates.
As a test, you can create a new admin user account in System Preferences Accounts pane.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8235.html
Log out and log in to the new account. Try the things that caused the problems. Is it fast in the new account, or is it the same? If it is fast, then the cause is likely to be in your normal user account. If it is the same, then the cause is likely to be with the overall system (the OS).
You can also try doing a Safe Mode startup
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455
This will do some maintenance during startup and also load only Apple's essential system extensions and processes. Any third party software you have installed will not automatically run. Check the performance while in safe mode, and if there is improvement, restart normally to see if the problem comes back or not.

SuperDrive slow Data Transfer Speeds

I have several home movies DVDs I would like to loadback onto my mid-2011 27" iMac but it is taking for ever to complete the transfer. One DVD disk takes 6 hours because the transfer speed is crawling. I read up onthis and info says my HL-DT-STDVDRW GA32N (FirmwareVersion KE06) is made by HLDS and they have implemented riplock which slows the data speed way down to preserve SuperDrive life expectancy anddecrease noise level. How can I disable this riplock to restore the data speed. I bought this fast/expensive machine and the SuperDrive of all things is slowing medown. Completely unacceptable.

I was having a problem ripping store bought CD's to ITunes and opened a case with Apple for suspected hardware issue. Turns out the problem was Norton AntiVirus by Symantec which was blocking my external drives. Even though the CD is internal it was killing it. Once I shut off Norton everthing started working.
The way I came to figure out it was a Software and not hardware issue was that the Superdrive worked perfectly under Windows 7 inside of VMWare Fusiion.
If you have any sort of AntiVirus, try shutting and down and using the Superdrive.
My machine is the same , late 2011 with Firmware KE06

Transfer Mail from Snow Leopard to Lion

I have a new iMac and I want to transfer my Apple Mail from my older Mac Book Pro running Snow Leopard to it. I've zipped up the Mail folder that was under Library and I found out how to access the hidden Library on my iMac. I see mail has changed a bit in Lion and before I unzip my mail folder into /Library/Mail, I want to make sure I won't screw anything up.
Any suggestions or warnings?
Thanks.
- Dan

I suspect Migration Assistant of migrating some possibly corrupt files from a previous system, which in turn has evolved into frequent and persistent SBODs in my current system. Not that I can prove any of that, but in an effort to improve my performance, I'm working on (finally!) upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion (I know, just in time for Mountain Lion, right?). Rather than use Migration Assistant, I'm piecemealing the transition, moving a little at a time to see if I can figure out why my current system has gotten bogged down. If I can move a major piece and have it come out OK, then I'll move another little piece. When I get the big stuff done, then I can decide if I can live without whatever is left. Big stuff will be Mail, Safari (bookmarks, etc), NetNewsWire (the biggest part of that will be making sure the Google Reader stuff comes with it), 1Password and MS Office.
For Mail, is just the ~/Library/Mail folder and com.apple.mail.plist file from Preferences all that's really needed? I was reading an about.com article that talked about moving keychains folder, but that got me into trouble enough that I'm having to restart the Lion install on an external drive. Is the Keychains folder move necessary?
Thanks for whatever help might be offered.

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