Second HD in Thinkpad too slow!

[CloudTP]

I have a THINKPAD A31p with two 60GB hard drives. I also have an external 160GB maxtor connected via firewire. When I copy a 1GB file from C: to the maxtor it takes 1 minute. When I copy the same file from E: to the maxtor it takes almost 7 minutes! Read/Write, it's the same thing. And it's not the drive, because I tried another drive in the E: slot and had the same result. What else can cause this problem?

thanks,
Paul

 

[gargouille]

Herein you see why firewire is a preferred technology:
IT'S FASTER!