[G4] Re: Master vs Slave HDs & OSX

[Al Poulin]

This is a very good point, having both OSs on the new drive.  For 
classic ops, it does not matter which copy of OS 9 you make the 
Classic.  Just slim down the offerings in the Extensions Manager to 
create a Classic Quick Start set.

But I would not bother going back into the machine to switch 
master/slave.  The new drive as slave does not care about what happens 
to the old master.  "Master/slave" is bad terminology, but we live with 
it.  The slave does not depend on the master for anything.

--
Al Poulin


On Oct 1, 2004, Ron Steinke <ronsteinke at mac.com> wrote:

> In addition to making the switch described by John, I suggest
> installing OS-9 on the larger drive to insure having it available for
> any Classic application/software that you might use.
>
> If the smaller drive goes west on you, you will still have both the
> OSes available on the larger and can continue your work without
> interruption.
>
> On 1 Oct, 2004, at 11:49, John Baltutis wrote:

>>>  My question is, does having the 80GB drive set as slave have
>>> any
>>> affect on performance? Would it make any difference if I changed the
>>> 10GB
>>> drive to slave and the 80GB drive to master?
>>
>> Nope. However, I'd swap the two, making the new HD the master and the
>> other
>> the slave.