On Dec 8, 2005, at 3:31 PM, PowerBooks wrote:
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:35:35 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CF boot drive and hard drive spin-up problem persists
At 8:55 AM -0500 12/08/2005, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
still encountering hard drive spin-up. In fact, when the drive was
spun-down, dragging it to the Trash caused it to spin-up!
Of course. It's a dismount operation. The drive has to be spun up
so the OS can write the final bits from the directory cache to it.
OK, that makes sense to me.
Since you're booted from the CF card, you have nothing on the HD of
interest?
I'm not sure what you're asking me here. The current hard drive in my
2400 is only 1GB, only a little larger than the 1GB CF card. I'm
doing the CF card thing primarily to run my PB silently and to extend
battery life. Until I get the courage and the funds to invest in and
install a larger hard drive, I am envisioning the hard drive as a
back-up for the CF card, an emergency boot disk, and a place to store
docs.
You could mark the drive to not auto-mount, but then you won't be
able to boot from it. So why not just put an AppleScript in the
Startup Items folder that dismounts the drive. That way the original
spin-up on boot isn't wasted. :)
You are over my head and competence here. 1) How do I mark the drive
not to auto-mount? 2) Can you provide me with an AppleScript or
instruct me on how to compose one? 3) I notice the spin-up at startup
even though the card is the boot drive. Although I would lose the
boot capability (or to choose it as a Startup disk from the Control
Panel), would/could I be OK with completely removing the System and
Apps from the hard drive, and simply have it formatted as a storage
drive?
[etc] iTunes insists that the iTunes Music Library is on the hard
drive, even though I copied it to the card. Is this a case-by-case
scenario?
yea. Some apps are just cranky like that. You'll have to figure 'em
out on a case-by-case basis.
What does this entail, say with Internet Explorer? Is this a case of
trashing prefs and caches, etc., or should I remove the app entirely
from the hard drive?
- Dan.
Thanks for assisting a CF card newbie! This is a very interesting
exercise, though I'm currently a bit frustrated because the continual
hard drive spin-ups are contrary to my expectations for switching to
the CF card as my boot drive. Actually, I'm not using the PB in such
a way as to require loads of extra space. I still have 324MB of free
space on the card. Unless I was interested in loading-up on mp3s or
photos, I can't really imagine needing much more space anyway (I use
iTunes mainly to access Internet radio stations).
If someone told me they've essentially abandoned their hard drive and
use only a CF card that would be of interest to me. I just don't have
enough experience with them to make this leap. Having a backup boot
option is reassuring for me.
Gary
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