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iDisks available again under OS 9.1

updated 10:05 am EDT, Tue April 17, 2001

 
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Apple has solved problems users were having mounting iDisks under Mac OS 9.1, according to a recent post in Apple's discussion boards: "iDisk should now be available as normal." A post last week acknowledged problems mounting iDisks under Mac OS 9, but noted that it was still available via direct access using the Chooser.


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    Slowness...

    What I don't get about this service is why it has to freeze my computer or slow it to a crawl whenever I access my iDisk... I thought this was a AppleShare thing and I was sure this would not be the case in OS X... But it's the same in 10.0/10.0.1...

    Can anyone give me some kind of explanation for this? Shouldn't it be as smooth as transfering to an FTP?

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    appeltalk

    well as i understand it in 9.x youconnect toyour idisk via appletalk tunneled thru ip. Now ofcourse any slow appltalk activity hangup the whole thing due to legacy c*** (this is well known).

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    How is it slow . . . ?

    Anyone attempting to do iDisk over a modem connection thru an institutional switchboard will likely be limited to a 26400 bps connection. The above-mentioned "legacy c***" will be very noticeable at this rate.

    If you're connecting from home or not thru a switchboard (say, a dedicated & shared fax hookup), but a long way away from your TelCo central office, you might also be so "bandwidth-limited".

    But listen: at 1Mbps DSL, iDisk is still slow under 9.1 (my experience), but greatly improved under 10.0.1 (ditto).

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    Strange

    with my 1.5mbit SDSL, I'm pulling down 8 megabytes per minute. (16mb of stuff in my iDisk, it took just under 2 minutes)

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    No multi-threaded Finder

    While the OS itself makes heavy use of multi-tasking, individual apps don't always. I think this first release of the Finder is not as comprehensively multithreaded as the 8 Finder was.

    So, if one window is waiting on an AppleTalk connection, all of them wait.

    As for "legacy c***", unless they can expand on it I think they're talking about the small packet sizes that AppleTalk used to have. The long and short of it is this: that's not an issue with TCP/IP.

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    iDisk with Cable

    With my 2mbps cable connection my iDisk was like a snail in Mac OS 9.1. Now with Mac OS X (10.0.0/10.0.1) my iDisk is really fast!

    Dante

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