Heck, if you can't use a slave drive to boot from (I'm not sure if you can or not), just move the original drive to slave and make the new one master.
The Master/Slave thing is fairly simple, at lease simple compared to SCSI chains. Master is a setting for if the drive is by itself or the drive at the tip of the cable. Some drives (i.e. Western Digital) have a mode called Single. This is used if the drive is on the cable by itself. Slave is a setting for a second drive that is on the middle connector of an IDE bus. It is only used if there is a master drive. Master/Single drives are always at the end of the cable. Slave drives are never by themselves and are always connected to the middle of the cable. Also, if you have two busses (each bus can handle 2 devices) they are independant. Meaning that if you have a Master on one bus and nothing on the second, then you add a new device to the second bus, it would also be master (master of it's own cable per se') It is good practice (although not always needed) to add drives like so (assuming that you have two busses): Master1, Master2, Slave1, Slave2. Hopefully this has cleared up IDE a bit for you. -Robyn On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 12:06 PM, Paul Shuck wrote: <snip> > I am a little confused about the slave-master thing. > If I can use the new drive as a boot drive, should 10.2 be on it's own > partition? How big? > I humbly request enlightenment, Paul Shuck -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
