Suggestion: Partition the 320GB drive in 4 parts. Go ahead and set up and run the 80GB internal as your primary drive, but periodically use SuperDuper! to clone a copy of the primary drive to a partition on the External HD. You SHOULD be able to boot from the external, you can then clone back to the 'internal' drive your latest 'backup'.
Just what I do, and it works great! Chuck D. On Sep 19, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Eric Volker wrote: > > I recently acquired a dual G5 on eBay. Unfortunately, it came with a > measly 80GB SATA drive. I happened to have a 320GB EIDE/PATA drive and > a Firewire 400 enclosure sitting around. Presto! 320GB boot drive, > right? Not so fast, methinks. Firstly, my enclosure has much-maligned > Prolific PL-3507 chipset. Secondly, it strikes that me that booting > off of an external drive might not be the best idea (e.g., what > happens if someone trips on the cord?) > > I'm somewhat concerned about the reliability of the Prolific chipset. > If I remember correctly, I had problems with bootable systems just > disappearing. However, I have since flashed the firmware, and have > also copied back and forth 40GB or so of data without any problems. > > So what does the list think about using that 320GB as a primary boot > drive? Am I just asking for trouble, or is it a reasonable solution > given the fact that I don't want to cough up $100 for a new SATA > drive. > > Thanks, > > Eric > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
