[ale] Long lag for command line

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

On 6/29/2013 6:48 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> On 6/29/2013 12:15, Doug Hall wrote:
>> I've experienced this kind of slowness from a dying hard drive - only it
>> might have been the controllers and not the disk itself. I remember 
>> running
>> Diskwarrior (Mac hard disk utility program), and even though it took a
>> LONG, LONG time to run, it came back with only insignificant errors.
>> (Improper file count in the index, etc.) Once I replaced the drive,
>> everything was back to normal. Do you have a spare drive you could 
>> throw in
>> there?
>
> Unfortunately I don't have any spares right now but I'll keep that in 
> mind if I can find any.  IDEs aren't easy to get anymore (at least not 
> cheaply).
>

Perhaps a sata - ide interface adapter would work.

Ron


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