[G4] (no subject) How to use multiple drives.

[John Niven]

Hummmm....

What is a "slave" drive? You do have a master and
slave on the ide bus but I believe both are treated
the same by the OS.

I get the impression that OSX really only wants to
operate from one drive (Volume). So I guess You can
treat a second drive as a "backup" drive, but since it
shares the same interface/power supply, it's not the
safest.

I tried to use two drives, one with my home
directories, and one with the rest of the OS and apps.
This seemed like a great idea since it's obvious what
needs to be backed-up, and what could be rebuilt if a
disk failed. However there were lots of problems, I
can't remember all the details, things just didn't
work right.

So I think one drive is best for OSX: buy a PCI
adapter (no 128Gb limit) and use the biggest you think
you need, use firewire for backup.

I'm hoping I'll be proved wrong though (I have 4 x
18Gb SCSI drives in my work G4).

John 
 
--- Ronald Steinke <ronsteinke at mac.com> wrote:

> On 18 Jan 2007, at 07:54, Harlow, Virginia (V.L.)
> wrote:
> 
> > s there a way I can transfer the data on the 20GB
> to a new,  
> > unformatted 100GB, then replace the 20GB with the
> 100GB?  I would  
> > then format the second 100GB as a slave drive.
> 
> Download and use either CarbonCopyCloner (freeware)
> or SuperDuper  
> (shareware) to make your first clone on the new
> 100Gb drive. Your  
> plan for the second 100Gb drive is good, don't
> change it.>
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