On Saturday, October 8, 2005, at 04:10 PM, Ken wrote:
My Reply follows quote. On 08/10/2005 12:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I've got a beige tower with two drives, the stock 6GB with OSX 10.2.8
and all Apps and files related to OSX, and a SCSI 2GB with OS9.2.2 and
associated files. It is used primarily in OSX.
I have a 4GB drive from a beige desktop I'd like to add to free up
space
for OSX. I'm hoping I can just remove the floppy drive and use that
bay
and connection for the new drive. I may have to change the jumpers to
give it a new ID.
You can put a HD in the floppy bay, but you will need to get an new
cable. Floppies use a different interface than HDs. You also need to
know if you have a Rev 1 or a Rev 2 or 3 rom in your machine. Rev 1
roms do not support slave drives so you can only have 1 drive on each
ata bus. Rev 2 or 3 support slave drives so you can have 2 drives on
each bus.
Here are the Rom rev #s
You can use the Apple System Profiler to identify which ROM version you
have:
* Rev. 1: $77D.40F2
* Rev. 2: $77D.45F1
* Rev. 3: $77D.45F2
Assuming I'm ok that far, which of the following folders can I move
to a
separate drive without causing problems with OSX?
- Library
- System
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MUCK WITH OR MOVE THESE.
- Applications
- Users (running multiple users on this unit)
OS X expects these to be on the main drive, but they can be moved. You
can move most applications to another drive, just by dragging them. You
will just need to use a few more clicks when doing things like opening
or saving things. You should probably keep the Apple apps on the main
drive and move your third party apps.
There is a procedure for moving your users folders, but it involves
mucking about in the terminal.
You can create a folder on the other volume for each user and only give
that user access to it to store documents and such.
TIA for any advice,
Andrew MacDougall
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So, what kind of drives do you have? Are they ATA drives running
off the logic board connectors? If so, I think that the buss only
supports two drives.
If the drives are SCSI and running off a PCI SCSI card, then you may
be able to add drives to the chain. If this is the case, you would have
to get a longer cable.
Beiges have onboard SCSI, the last macs to have SCSI built in.
To give you an idea of what you can do, here is my Beige G3s MT current
set up
ATA channel 1 has a 40GB ata drive partitioned into an 8G main with
system and most apps and 32G for storing documents and stuff. This is
in the bay above the HD. I could pull the floppy and put a HD in it's
place, but I would need to get a extra long ata cable to reach.
ATA channel 2 has a DVD/CDRW combo drive as master and a CD as slave.
The onboard SCSI has a 9G SCA SCSI drive with 5 partitions, a holdover
from my 6100. These hold various apps, system 9 and other stuff (a
virtual pc and Be os partitions that are not used except for storage).
My beige's other specs are a 533 G4, 576MB ram, generic USB card and a
flashed Radeon 7000 with a rev 2 rom. Running 10.2.8 with the hack to
enable Quartz Extreme.
HTH,
Len
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