On Saturday, June 12, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Victor Vaccaro wrote:
on 6/12/04 9:21 AM, Michael Shaw at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Victor Vaccaro wrote:That is really great to hear!
I have a Graphite G3/400 imac which I've been upgrading. I'm even thinking
about sending out the CPU and upgrading it to a G4(I use many graphics
applications). I'd like to replace the current hard drive(13GB) with a new
internal(200GB/7200 RPM) but I'm concerned about overheating the unit(I
don't know what RPM's my current drive is at).
It sounds like the external Firewire drive is working well for you. I do
have a few questions if it's not to much trouble .
1) does "partition" mean to put on two separate hard drives?
2) Is the external HD(W/firewire) as fast as using an internal?
3) How specifically do you switch from OS9 to OSX on the imac?
4) Can you run applications from the external HD?
Thanks,
Victor
1 Partition means partition. Caro has one 30 or 40 gig hard drive inside the iMac. She was running OS9.1. She did some cleanup and removed stuff already on CDs and old homework and school stuff from a few years ago. Since its on a network it was easy for her to salvage all of her remaining documents and applications to a folder on a hard drive on another computer on the network. Some stuff never made the cut.
Then I started up the computer off a system CD and erased the hard drive and reformatted it into two equal partitions, Loeb and Leopold.
Both icons appear on the Desktop.
Using FileSharing I moved all of her original files and system back into one partition and did an install of Jaguar on the other partition.
You can start up the computer from either the OS9.1 CD or the Jaguar CD to do this. There is a disk repair and disk modification utility on both CDs.
2 Just as fast or faster. Think about the speed and performance improvements in computers over the past few years and carry it over to hard drive technology. I suspect that the hard drive INSIDE the iMac is 5400 RPM and has no cache, but I really don't know. I do know that Caro's iMac from new has been the LOUDEST computer in the house, even louder than my Daystar which has multiple fans. The new firewire drive is 7200 RPM and has 8 Megs of cache.
3 You open the System Prefs in Jaguar and select the Startup disk . Tell the imac to restart off the OS9.1 drive. Restart.
You open the control Panels in OS9.1 and select the Startup disk . Tell the imac to restart off the Jaguar drive. Restart.
4 You can run anything off the external FireWire that would run off an internal drive. The external is a 120 gig partitioned into a pair of 60-gig drives. I put Panther on one partition and started up my iBook from the external drive to run disk repair utilities. A operating system will be seen on the external just as well as the OS in the iMac.
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