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

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 -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

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

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 carto

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

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 rel

Re: 3400 swap nears end - solved

--- Brian Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: it's sunny here in Toronto, although there > will be no hockey > this season it seems. > > Thanks to everyone, again. > > BM > > -- I feel your pain, as Bill would put it. No L.A. Kings down here either!

Re: 3400 swap nears end - solved

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. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electr

Re: 3400 swap nears end - solved

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 i