"1. Why not move all your drives to the ATA card to shorten the data path.
2. The Supermac can handle the UW-SCSI card/drive but you'll need to
reinitialize, install 9.1 and upgrade to 9.2 via OS 9 Helper so the proper
extensions specific to that machine will load.
3. Yes but only if you disable all extensions.
4. No way out except to use a USB floppy drive.
Charlie"
1. Why is the ATA card a shorter data path than the IDE bus on the mobo? This is not intuitive (but still may be true! :-) ) Are you saying that the performance will be noticeably quicker through the ATA card than directly on the mobo? If the difference will be very noticeable, I'll probably keep the ATA card where it is. If it's not that noticeable, if at all, I want to move it to the Supermac because it currently has no ATA/IDE capability.
2. I was afraid this might be the case. No big deal. . .just the lazy streak in me coming out.
3. You mean, without Expost Facto, it will only boot with all extensions off? Period?
4. See #2!
One curious thing happened yesterday. I copied everything on the SCSI HD and pasted it on the unused ATA/PCI HD partition and it occupies only half the space! I wasn't expecting this. I did a simple "select all, drag & paste." The difference in size in some of the files is dramatic, like 8 mb versus 68 mb. The only difference I can tell, apart from the ATA/PCI versus SCSI Extra Wide/PCI is the fact that the current HD is formatted in HFS (Standard) and the ATA HD is formatted in HFS+ (Extended). Could this account for the difference in space used? We're talking about the difference between roughly one gig and a half a gig. Thanks, again, Charlie, et al.
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