> Jeff Walther wrote: > It saves a lot of time because I find in a single drive system one of > the > biggest time consumers is just getting back to where you can boot the > computer > back up to look at teh drives and access your disk utilities. > > John Albert wrote: > I concur that ...snip... > The cheapest way to do it is to buy an ATA/PCI card (the $50 ACARD > ATA/66 card > from Other World Computing comes to mind), and mate that to an ATA > high-capacity drive.
Jeff & John, I agree that a second drive is wonderful, however it gets to be expensive if you have several machines. And, the thought of swapping around an ATA PCI card and a hard drive, in a crisis situation, makes my brain hurt. I was able to come up with a cheapie way of booting all of our legacy machines (C600, 9600 & 3400 laptop) for emergencies and for maintenance. I found one of the old Apple external SCSI boxes with a 4 GB hard drive in it, on ebay for under $50 shipped. Not exactly speedy but effective. Nancy -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
