Re: 3400 swap nears end - solved and an OT question.

[Ted Lovejoy]

I used to have Lisa Simpson saying "I am the Lizard Queen!" as a
startup sound, so of course the hard drive was named Lizard Queen.
Then there was Lizard Queen 2 and 3. But I lost that sound bite, so
now I name it after the machine: 3400c and 190cs.

Ted

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Re: 3400 swap nears end - solved and an OT question.

[Fluxstringer]

Kewl Brian!  HFS+ helps.  I hope you have partitioned it also.  It 
saves wear and tear on the drive.  The system does not have to scan 
as large of an area to find what it needs. So the OS should feel 
snappier.

I name my drives for easily remembered characters.  Some for 
characters in the cartoon series Reboot. Some for Hindu Gods.

It makes it easier to remember what files are on what drive.
Also some are Partitioned and names of partitions assigned in a 
conventional terminology from a defunct platform.  Thus;  "System" 
would be for the OS and closely associated utilities. "Apps" would 
contain of course application programs which produce new files. ( 
could also be called Tools)
And "Work" which contains the products of "Apps". This is termed 
documents in darkside terms. Finally we have "Play" Whichcontains 
games, sound files,player utilities, picture and movie files.  Things 
mostly for entertainment..

Since I still have a machine from this defunct platform with these 
names the Mac HD with these names actually has an "M" before them to 
designate
they are on the Mac. Thus; "MPlay"= "Mac Play."

What is hilarious is that a 500 MB drive used to seem huge.  And now 
I don't bother partitioning anything under 4 GB.

I still have in storage a boxful of brand new IBM 100 MB drives I 
once planned to use in an array.

But rapid change makes fools of us all
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Re: 3400 swap nears end - solved and an OT question.

[Brian Mahoney]

Fluxstringer wrote:
Glad it's working Brian.
Before you put much on the drive you might consider reformatting  it " 
extended" .

That would be HFS+  formatting and allow more files on the disk and 
faster searches as it is more efficient.

Thanks, that was a good suggestion. I went through the reload process 
and used extended this time. Right off the bat the difference was 
obvious, I picked up what seemed like a couple of gigs just loading the 
os. Out of 38 formatted I had something like 36 and change left the 
first time using normal formatting. Under extended it showed 37 and 
change. I forget the numbers exactly but it was a huge difference.
Most noticeable now is the absolute lack of noise from the 3400. The 
samsung drive is silent, and much faster. This is a much recommended 
change for anyone who wants to tinker. It would have gone much quicker 
if I'd remembered that 9.1 won't boot but 8.5 will.

The OT question is : What does everyone name their hard drives and/or 
computers on your network? I figure with the creative crowd here in 
Powerbooks there might be some pretty neat names for drives/computers 
out there. Mine have names such as Waldo, Dude, Bubba, Buddy, Bedmac, 
Kathjam, and, my favorite, Bobomb (from the Mario games). Any cool ones 
in the ether?

BM

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Re: 3400 swap nears end - solved

[PETE]

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> this season it seems.
> 
> Thanks to everyone, again.
> 
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Re: 3400 swap nears end - solved

[Fluxstringer]

Glad it's working Brian.
Before you put much on the drive you might consider reformatting  it 
" extended" .

That would be HFS+  formatting and allow more files on the disk and 
faster searches as it is more efficient.

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Re: 3400 swap nears end - solved

[Brian Mahoney]

Turns out neither 9.1 CD I had would boot. 8.5.1 would, so that's where 
I am now. There wasn't much interactivity, only a choice between Mac 
standard or Mac extended formats for the drive. I chose standard since I 
didn't know the difference. So the drive works, I am back to 80 megs of 
RAM and it's sunny here in Toronto, although there will be no hockey 
this season it seems.

Thanks to everyone, again.
BM
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