> From: Jolien Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PCI] scsi drive added on to pm9500 > > Hi, > > I finally installed a new scsi hard drive into my > pm9500 (OS9.1, 592MB ram, Sonnet G3/500 processor > upgrade), it is an 18GB IBM drive with 50 pin adaptor > from afterthemac. I couldn't get the drive installed > on a sled -- I think there was a defect in the sled I > bought -- so I just put it in carefully without the > sled and don't move the computer around. The drive > works (shows up on the desktop, transferred files and > applications open and work fine), but I'm wondering > about some things: > 1. I notice that when I move something over, it > appears to take up over twice the space in GB that it > did on my old hard drive. In Get Info, the number of > bytes is the same, but the GB is more than double. > Thus, I moved over ~500 MB of stuff from my old hard > drive, and it appears to be using over 1 GB of space > on the new drive. This isn't really a problem in > terms of me not having enough space (I really only > needed 1-2 more GB to do what I want with the > computer), but it seems weird. Is this typical? Did > I really only get a 9 GB drive? > > 2. On my old hard drive, after I removed over 500 MB > of stuff, I should have over 600 MB of free space (I > had been using ~900 MB of the 1 GB hard drive). I > emptied the trash (which took about 18 hours), but in > Get Info, it still shows only 92MB of free space. I > ran Norton Utilities from the CD, and when booted that > way, it showed the correct amount of free space (over > 600 MB). I also optimized and checked for errors -- > nothing major. But when I rebooted using my original > hard drive, it was still saying the wrong amount of > free space (92 MB). Does this matter? > > 3. Am I going to have problems from not putting the > drive on a sled? > > Any thoughts are appreciated. > > Jolien
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