Soon after the upgrade, I starting getting some freezes
If that was the problem...
You could also have just moved your swapfiles to another partition.
You might want to consider going back to the 4G SCSI drive and then using
something like SwapSwapVM to move them if you don't feel up to editing the
rc scripts yourself.
You're correct. This would have been a good solution except that I was flat out of space everywhere. I could have burned a few CD's I suppose, but somehow not having 'passive' access to data seems too much trouble. I've got a G3 7500 with 10.2.6 on a 4GB drive, and a second 1 GB drive with OS 9.1 on a 770 MB partition and a 230 MB "Swap partition". It really did add 10% or more speed even with the 1 GB drive being a slower 5,400rpm drive. You gave good advice, and I'd urge everyone to consider doing this. I used SwapSwapVM.
I'm in the process of cloning my System, and will definitely have a dedicated swap partition on my new 120GB Firewire drive. I just wish I been a little quicker and bought a second 120 GB drive. I ended up with one of those dual Firewire enclosures off eBay for only $5 + $20 shipping. It was the very best deal I ever got. The guy said, "it's new, but I can't get it to work?"; so I took a chance. A tiny little two wire plug that supplied the power to the Firewire bridge was unplugged; dah? & hurray!! The box is clunky steel made in China, but the Oxford 911G bridge for two drives is perfect so far. They're selling these for $69 and I think they're a good deal if you don't mind the clunky look. I'd thought I be using one of those plastic single drive enclosures, so I didn't have a second drive ready. If I could have found a matching 120 GB for really cheap I would have placed the two in the box as a small RAID to hopefully get even more speed and some backup. The biggest problem was software, since it appears that the OS X RAID is really rudimentary to the point of almost being useless.
My experience with Firewire is similar to what you read everywhere. Buy only the Oxford chipset bridges. I'd planned on using my 120 GB in an old CD-R specific box with an Initio chipset, but that wouldn't work. I've also messed with Genesys Logic chipset devices. Only the Oxford chipset devices have been rock solid & flawless. Oxford also has a really neat Java Firmware Update tool that will flash the firmware from any platform. I was unable to upgrade the Intitio firmware even with assistance from Initio (it still works as a CD-R box). The Genesys is PC compatible, but Mac incompatible, and there are zero updates to fix this. Stick with Oxford. Two really cheap enclosures that work well are the clunky, beige, dual bay from China (brand unknown); and the tiny aluminum 2.5" laptop DTK brand from Taiwan. Both are Oxford 911. Kris Tilford
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