Hi Duncan and Richard, > I have to disagree :-)
I'm glad to hear the below is possible, it what I spent weeks trying to achieve, but finally found impossible on a Dell; the BIOS simply will not allow it. By having SCSI as boot and IDE as storage, you get the best of both worlds and cheaper than buying firewire drives! > You can > have a SCSI drive as the boot drive AND an IDE as a secondary > drive(s). All > you need is a decent BIOS (like Phoenix, Award, American > Megatrends etc) on > a motherboard from a decent manufacturer that gives you an > option for your > boot order. Here you can choose the first device that the > BIOS will look for > to boot from > Duncan Lawson >As regards VM or I thought more commonly called paging file, as >long as you have a minimum of 12 Mb more than the installed ram you are >in the clear. >Richard Richard, you correct in that it is recommended to have that amount of PF space; you can actually have less especially if you have stacks of RAM, but you are still utilising a disk, so the faster the better. Even with my PF (VM for Mac users) allocated entirely to another disk, I still find that Windows is utilising the boot disk for some swapping, hence the disadvantage of using an IDE drive for booting. Cheers, Nick WB. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
