At 10:01 AM -0500 12/8/2008, Al Poulin wrote: >On Dec 7, 2008, at 9:34 PM, imaclist group wrote: > > From: Dan > > The La Cie drive I'm using, for example, has USB 2, FW400, FW800, and > > eSATA interfaces, but I mostly use it via USB 1.1. > >Looks like a d2 Quadra, a fan-less, heat sink case model. If so, what >capacity?
This particular one is 500 GB. I think they make them in 320 GB and 1 TB flavours. There's also a model that does encryption in its controller; not sure if I like that much. >Does/can it spin down when the Mac does not need it? I love quiet. yes. MIne is pretty near dead quiet in the first place tho. My only beef is the Big Blue Eye. It's pretty bright! >Does/can it spin down when the Mac sleeps? yes. But keep in mind, if this is a drive to be used as BACKUP then it should NOT be plugged into your Mac when not in use! The POINT of a backup to be *disconnected* from the source when the catastrophe happens! >If partitioned three ways to provide bootable clone backups for two >aluminum Intel Macs and one Intel Macbook, and if the Mac to which the >LaCie is cabled via FW800 is asleep, will that Mac automatically wake >up to allow another Mac to do a CCC update to the LaCie? Or must the >cabled Mac be awake ahead of time? AFAIK, the CCC's cron/launchd task does not wake the Mac. Note also that you should not connect the drive to multiple Macs simultaneously, just because it has multiple interfaces. HFS+ is not a distributed file system; you will corrupt things. >To have bootable clones as above, the LaCie must be initialized GUID. >So, I assume the answers to the next questions are big fat "NOs." Can >I add my G4 iBook to this picture with a fourth GUID partition? Can I >reinitialize that fourth GUID partition to APM with Disk Utility? I >guess I could just copy some iBook User files to one of the iMacs. A drive is either APM or GUID - never both. That's the fundamental partition map layout of the drive. Nothing to do with the file system (HFS vs HFS+ vs FAT vs ...) used within each volume (partition). To be bootable for a ppc-based Mac, the drive must be APM. But some x86 Macs *are* able to boot from APM drives! Not sure which tho... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
