In a message dated 10/25/05 Doug McNutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: <<I assume you're not taking about 10.4 because you need to talk to Macs running on OS less than 9. It's a logical choice that I have taken.>>
------------ 10.3.9 is already installed on the Sawtooth. I'm just not using it as the main OS since nearly all productive apps presently installed are only OS 9 native. And yes I do need to connect to older Macs running less than 9. ------------ << >I will still be using "Classic" for some apps like PageMaker and Illustrator >but will be running somewhat older OS X native versions of InDesign, PhotoShop >and MS Office (thanks Swaplist). It does make sense on a sawtooth to maintain OS 9 on a bootable partition rather than as a classic-under-OS neXt only system folder. I recently found that useful to confirm that some ATI video cards were unusable under OS neXt but perfectly OK in OS 9. They moved to this 8500 where they work fine.>> ---------- Then I should have OS 9 and OS X on separate petitions. ---------- >Soooo.......... Should I continue with my three partition system (I don't >like the desktop clutter) or just have everything on one 100 GB volume??? The scratch partition is unnecessary. There seems to be no reason in OS neXt for a swap partition and I donno how to tell the OS to use it anyway. The G4 will handle another - slave - ATA drive internally. Are you sure you don't want to leave the 60G there? >> ---------- The Scratch is being used for Photoshop and for burning CD's or DVD's under OS 9. I was assuming PhotoShop under OS X will still use a swap disk. Maybe not? And perhaps a separate contiguous volume for burning to optical media is not that important under OS X. Then I should dump the scratch partition? --------------- And in a message dated 10/26/05 Al Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>writes: <<Please let me add a couple variations on a theme. I have a g4 QuickSilver with two internal hard drives, both 40 GB. The Main Drive, a Seagate, is the operational one, with OS X 10.3.7, OS 9.2.2, all applications including Classic ones, and all data going back to the days of the LC. The other drive, the original IBM which came with the machine, is now in three partitions. One partition still has OS 9, the OS 9 applications, and the data as of the time I installed OS X on the Seagate over a year ago. That partition has plenty of space so I use it to backup the data from the main drive. And occasionally I backup data, including Mail, to CDs. The second partition on the IBM is OS X Emergency for testing and playing around. The third partition is Scratch for Photoshop Elements which runs on the Main Drive. [snip] I understand it is best to keep the OS X applications and the "regular" data files on the same volume as the OS X. OS X does very nicely in managing the data files and preventing fragmentation. Partitioning a drive for these functions is not as important with OS X as it was with the legacy OSs. But, some users who have enough video and music data to fill up hard drives find it best to keep that stuff on separate drives (not partitions on the main drive).>> Your setup is somewhat similar to a B &W I have set up as a secondary and test Mac. OS 10.3 and 9.2 are on the boot volume with the standard OS X apps. OS 9.2 and all my OS 9 and earlier apps and utilities on a second partition. I usual run in OS 10.3 on this computer with the second partition OS 9 set for "Classic." It seems to be working smoothly with data created in Classic mode stored on this second volume. In this case both volumes are on the same hard drive. ------------ <<Many experts say that using a scratch partition for the OS is best left to experts and not for casual users. If the scratch partition is for Photoshop or a similar application, you tell the application to use that space. By all means do that.>> ------------- Yes, I use PhotoShop. ------------- << > The G4 will handle another - slave - ATA drive internally. Are you > sure you don't want to leave the 60G there? Excellent question. You could have one volume on your new drive, and split the smaller drive into partitions. One alternative for the smaller drive is to put it into an external Firewire enclosure and make it bootable as well as serving for scratch and backup purposes. If you Sawtooth dies, or the new hard drive suffers a catastrophe, your external drive can run on another Mac very readily. Perhaps I should plan to do that too.>> -------------- I plan to move the old 60 MB drive from the Sawtooth to the B & W and the 40 MB drive from the B & W is going to a newly acquired B &W that will be a birthday present. The Sawtooth also has a pair of SCSI LVD drives running from an ATTO controller. For the time being these will be the backup drives. As more space is needed and funds become available either single large ATA drive will replace them. Or I'll use an external Firewire enclosure as you suggest. In summery it looks like I should keep the three partitions unless the scratch disk for Photoshop is not necessary. In that case then just two. Thanks all, and sorry for the delay in my response. Tuesday's storm knocked out my broadband connection. I'm back to dial-up for a while AND waiting for phone time. ;-) --glen (digest mode) -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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