Stephen & Alan,
I knew this! But just reaffirmed it to myself last night.
About a month ago I installed an ATA100 card and a new 60 GB IDE drive
in our 9600, in anticipation of trying to install OS X on it. I was
working in the direction of having the original 4 GB drives in our c600
and 9600, along with a bigger internal drive in each machine as well.
Well, last night, I finally got everything transferred over to the new
drive. When I removed the 18GB SCSI drive from the 9600 to put its
original 4 GB drive back... something nasty went wrong. The 60 GB drive
connected to the ATA card would hang about 90% of the way through
loading the extensions. If I booted with extensions off it would spin
forever just before the desktop appeared. After many hours of chasing
my tail I discovered six damaged fonts. Apparently Adobe Type Manager
was trying to fix them to no avail.
So Stephen, Alan is correct. Always have that old SCSI drive connected
in cases of extreme emergency! (Or in the case of the c600, always have
that old ATA drive installed.)
Nancy
P.S. The 18 GB SCSI went into the c600 without any problems!
> Alan Kim wrote:
>
> But I would always keep a System folder in a SCSI drive that is connected to
> the internal SCSI bus.
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