[blairl]

On my drives I am limiting the allocation to 10 or 15 minutes. It's still slow. I end up limiting them to 5,4,3,2,1 minutes until I can no longer function. I have to optimize my drives, then I'm back to the 10 to 15 minute allocation for a while until I slowly climb back down the ladder again; then it's back to optimizing the drives again. This has all started happening since I formated d my drives with ATTO EPT. Am I better of going back to FWB without HFS+? Doing this is a major undertaking for me as I have many, many drives. From what I understand I should not mix drivers from ATTO and FWB. It should be all one or the other. So I have to archive all my drives, take everything off, reformat, reload everything. This is a major undertaking so I want to get some good information before I do it. Will going back to FWB solve my problems?

Drives are:

IBM Ultrastar

Adaptec 2940UW card with the latest firmware.

Hot swapable canisters are used so the cable run is very short to the rack where the drives are pluged in. Cable length should not be a problem.

Any ideas?