I partitioned my hard drives and installed 9 on one of the partitions for all these reasons AND, because I can! :-)
Wednesday, June 30, 20042:15 PMJerry Yeagerjerry at browseryshop.com >The big difference is how large is the drive? OS-9 tops out at being >able to see not much more than 130 GB on a partition. So, If you are >running the 400 GB drives, with an OS-9 system, then you need to >partition them. > >Otherwise, it is an idea of "do you put all of your eggs in one basket >or not". Some folks feel that using partitions give you a bit of >insurance and speed. If you manage to scramble one of the partitions, >then you can still mount the drive from one of the other partitions and >fix the bad one. [But if the drive goes bad, then you are out of luck >because this will not work.] Also, the smaller partitions are speedier >in accessing (reading and writing files) than the bigger ones. In OS-9. > >OS-X can address bigger hard drives so it it not as necessary to split >the drives up. The speed issue is not non-trivial in OS-X but usually >that is handled by using separate drives (say one for video, one for >audio, etc.). > > > Jerry > > >On Jun 30, 2004, at 1:41 PM, BRogers971 at aol.com wrote: > >> i have an additional question... does your drive have to be split with >> OS 9 and X on different partitions? >> >> thanks, belinda >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> >> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >The more things change, the more they stay insane. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >----------------------------------- >Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if >I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. > > > >| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >| be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >| List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >| List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
