[Dave Gosley]

Having emptied the mass storage device on the Firewire – I continued using MacDrive to empty some other archive folders off separate drives – this time using an external esata docking station.

The drive I am taking stuff off is a 7200 / 6GBp/s and its feeding a PC formatted 7200 / 6GB/ps drive – via a sata cable.

MacDrive is maintaining a rate of 116MB p/s – which is way better.
I am persuaded the problem was not with MacDrive but with Firewire – even with the ubicore driver.

[Dave Gosley]

Have same problem with MacDrive. Trying to take files off a drobo that was mac formatted.
MacDrive sees the drive just fine. But transfer off it is a labour intensive 10MBps.

PC is a new one with win 7 pro. The drive I am transferring to is a seagate 7200 3TB internally installed on SATA – and was bought new in Feb 2013.

I have changed the firewire driver to the legacy version – got a minimal increase from 7 – 8 MBps to the 10.
Then changed to the ubicore driver – and no difference.

I tried transmac – and once installed it could recognise the drobo as a disk – but could not connect to it – stating “disk access error” so never got it to work.

I am waiting for the folk at mediafour support to respond again – having responded once to recognise my request, the immediate was to ask if I had tried and alternative connection.

Yes – tried firewire and usb – same result.