How to configure HDs for a dual-boot-system???

[thurston]

Hi @ all,


I'm new to the DUC and already need some advice:

I'm running a DIGI 001 on a G4 Quicksilver and finally decided to upgrade to a dual boot system. I went through the DUC and found that obviously two seperate HDs should be better than putting both systems on one partitioned HD.

I have to 40 GB IBM Deskstars in my G4. So, when I use one HD per system, how should I configurate the disks? Master, Slave Cable Select etc.????

I don't know anything about these configuration issues....

Thanks a lot in advance!

Cheers

thurston

[tha k man]

The first Hd in your system is the Master. Any drives that you put in expansion slots should be configured as slaves.

[thurston]

Hi K Man,


thanks for your reply. So, if I have let's say the OS 9 HD as "Master" and the OS X HD as "Slave" - will I really have no problems then when I'm running OS X?

I'm asking because I used to have following configuration: The first HD partitioned in "System" and "Data" and configured as "Master", the second drive as dedicated Audio Drive without any partitions and configured as "Slave".

But when I tried to record to my Audio Drive, PT gave me messages that the disc would be either too slow, too full or too fragmented. But this was definitely not given. Oddly, I had no problem to record onto the Data partition of the system disk which was smaller and where data was saved, removed etc. all the time (so here fragmentation could have been an issue). Somebody then told me, I should configure the Audio Drive in "Cable Select Mode", this would solve the recording problem.

What do you think of this?

[maccool]

"Master" and "Slave" drives will perform equally, but they share a single ATA bus, so Read/Write can only occur to one drive of that pair at any one time; they take it in turns, exactly as 2 volumes on the same drive do, and you know that works. That isn't an optimum arrangement for sheeer performance, but adequate for PTLE. For full track count Digi specify a dedicated audio drive, but they don't specify that it shoud be on it's own bus, although most folks would say that it should. If you use a pair of drives configured Master/Slave, the Master drive should be the one at the end of the data cable. As far as I know, Cable Select can be used on Mac's all the way back to the Beige G3, so you might try both drives configured for CS, in which case the 'puter would automatically nominate the one at the end of the cable as Master, and the other as Slave.

How you partition your drives for dual-boot is really a matter of taste, but having both OS's on one drive isn't a problem. The inner half of a 40GB drive isn't a heck of a lot slower than the outer half, and I doubt that you'd be able to perceive any difference. Be sure not to fill any volume on a drive to more than 75% or problems may occur, give it room to breath.

If you contine to have problems, perhaps you could try another data cable.