Bryce Lee writes: >If one holds a metal (or plastic) box in one's hand, and said container >has what is described as a hard drive, this hard drive consists of >platters (like phonograph records) which make up the hard drive. >Partitioning them or making these platters do "that" and these platters do >"these" doesn't physically change the idea that all these platters work >together to function what we call a hard (non-removable) drive. > >So even if one portion is OS 9, and another portion (sector as I noted in >an earlier message) is OS X, if the stack of platters all falls down at >once, the computer dies.
No, only the hard drive. The rest of the computer should be fine. On the other hand, this is why everyone should do backups, because the information on your hard drive is the most valuable part of the computer. >If one then assumes that parititioning, as advocated by David Pogue in his >book works, I suspect then, it doesn't. Insofar as longterm vaibility. Partitioning does work, as I and thousands of other Mac users will attest. It's not perfect, but then neither are hard drives. It's nearly perfect -- enough so that I've never run into problems related to partitioning. >Programs loaded still interact across boundary lines with nary a care >weeither way. This has absolutely nothing to do with partitions. It has everything to do with the way the classic Mac OS and Mac OS X work. Both operating systems are smart enough to find and use a requested application on any connected drive -- even of a network. Whether that file is on a separate partition, a separate drive, or a separate computing sharing files doesn't matter. The Mac OS is smart enough to find it *if* it's on an available drive. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. <http://cobwebpublishing.com> <http://lowendmac.com> <http://digital-views.com> <http://digigraphica.com> <http://lowendpc.com> <http://reformed.net> Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
