[MacDV] Re: Formatting my hard drive

[Paul Williams]

Good info! Thank you. I want to set up something similar to keep my 
video files and my scratch disc separate from my OS and apps.

How is your dual G5 working? I've got a dual on the way with 2 160gb 
drives, 2 monitors, etc.. and all this talk i've been seeing on apple 
regarding the "chirps", "hums", black screens and drive failures 
really has me concerned. The G3 i have now may be slow in comparison 
to many machines but it has been trouble free for over 4 years.

Thank you,

Paul

>Paul
>Some applications demand to be put on the startup volume and in 
>general they clearly state during the installation process or this 
>is explained in  the "Read Me" that comes with them.
>A good place to research is the Apple Discussion Boards on the Apple 
>support pages. I spent many fruitful hours there before I got my G5 
>dual. As well as the hardware there are many other discussions on 
>software. Don't be frightened when you read these though, as most of 
>the people who post there have problems and most  Mac buyers and 
>users never have any of these glitches.
>Like me.
>For what its worth I have two internal drives and a Firewire 
>external. The internals are 120 &160 gig and the external 80. The 
>120 is used for all Apps, the OS and all of my normal installed 
>stuff. The 160 is in 2 partitions one of approx. 10 gig which has 
>all of the loops for Sound track and a large collection of other 
>sound files. The other partition I use only for Video; captures and 
>all of the relevant stuff for FCP, iMovie, Compressor etc. This is 
>wiped clean after a project is completed. The external Firewire is 
>partitioned into 2 volumes and is used to backup my G5 and my wifes 
>iBook. I do this with Carbon Copy Cloner each week.
>Kind regards,
>Richard Dalziel-Sharpe Australia.
>
>On 03/12/2003, at 1:51 AM, Paul Williams wrote:
>
>>  Hi All,
>>
>>  I'm not sure this message is appropriate for this forum, if not, i 
>>apologize.
>>
>>  I have a dual processing G5 on order. I like to partition my 
>>drives. Question is, of the 160G drive that comes with the machine 
>>i don't know how big my partitions should be.
>>
>>  Generally i like to keep the OS, the apps and files on separate 
>>partitions. How big should my OS partition be? I'll be loading apps 
>>such as FCP, DVD Studio Pro, Norton and adobe. I read here 
>>somewhere that certain apps need to reside in the same directory as 
>>the OS (???).
>>
>>  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>  Also, does anybody know of similar forums (like this one) where i 
>>can discuss OSX issues?
>>
>>  Paul Williams
>>
>
>
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