Starting Jaguar on a PowerBook from a SCSI hard drive

[Roald Baudoux]

PowerBook G4 Titanium List wrote / a ecrit :

> > Wow. There is either something amiss with your TiBook or your standards
> > for speed must be pretty high. :-) I have an 867 TiBook with 512mb and
> > I run Panther without any complaints. I also ran various releases of
> > Jaguar before that. How slow does it run?

Well, any time I have to open a file (soundfiles at least) I have to wait 
10 to 20 seconds in front of the "rainbow CD" icon. MacOS 9.2.2 is much 
faster on the same machine.

> >
> What do you mean by slow? Compared to what? Personally, I wouldn't use
> such a small disk for a startup with OS X. I have a 9Gig and an 18Gig,
> both SCSI that I've been thinking of ways to use with my Ti for backup
> purposes, but as a lover of lots of space and a large  iTunes library,
> I'd have to have at least a 20 or 30 Gig as startup.

My iTunes library is not on the same partition as the system so I do not 
need a big drive. But I need to know how fast it will run on a SCSI drive 
through a SCSi-to-FireWire adapter.

> I haven't heard
> anyone mention use of the SCSI to FW adapters. For the price I've seen,
> it would be less expensive to get a FW enclosure for the HD

FireWire-to-SCSI adapters do exist indeed. And I don't think you can 
install a SCSI hard drive in a FireWire enclosure (FireWire enclosures 
contain IDE drives usually).

> if you're really worried just spring for the 7200 rpm 2.5 inch drives 
> by Fujitsu.

Do you think it will either be noisier than the 4200 rpm drive or cause the 
fan to be activated more often (I use my computer for music so it does 
matter)?

Thank you for all the answers.

Best regards,

Roald Baudoux