On Sep 20, 2008, at 12:45 AM, Eric Volker wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply Kris. I'm pretty sure I have the rev. C of the > PL-3507, since IIRC I did do a firmware upgrade on my enclosure and > there's a chip marked PL-3507 413313C. Unfortunately, the name of my > enclosure manufacturer is "Mobile Disk", which makes it pretty hard to > Google up. I did successfully install Leopard on the 320GB drive (and > it installed 2-3 times faster than the internal!) and used the > Migration Assistant to move my apps over. Over the coming days I'll > boot off the Firewire drive and see if it barfs or otherwise > malfunctions. > > One question I did have about OS X RAID is whether or not a RAID 0 > volume is bootable. That would be just spiffy. > > Charles, I actually use a similar theory for my Mac mini with 500GB > external firewire. But, I boot off the internal 120GB and back it up > to an 80GB partition on the 500GB drive with CCC. If an update goes > horribly wrong, presto!, back to old system. The G5 is not fulfilling > a critical function at the moment, though, so I'm not really worried > about redundancy. At least, not yet. Hi Eric; Don't do it for redundancy, do it for paranoia!! [Remember Murphy?] Getting in the habit, when it isn't a necessity, means that when disaster strikes (Murphy) you already have your recovery available. JMHO Chuck D. Myself, I have with my MDD's several layers of complete system backups. Right now, there are 14 partitions, 6 of them being OSX.4.11 bootable systems of varying ages. If I include the external Neptune, there are 4 more partitions, 1= 9.2.2, 3= OSX.4.11 systems. C > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
