Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!apple!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!spray!anson
From: anson@spray.CalComp.COM (Ed Anson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Two hard disks - What do you do?
Message-ID: <2481@spray.CalComp.COM>
Date: 7 Nov 88 13:59:43 GMT
References: <8811041854.AA18367@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: anson@spray.UUCP (Ed Anson)
Organization: CalComp, A Lockheed Company, Hudson, NH, USA
Lines: 24

In article <8811041854.AA18367@decwrl.dec.com> long@mcntsh.dec.com (I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV!) writes:
>Hi MACer's,
Hi.

>	So, how do other folks out there with multiple hard disks USE them?  Do
>you put applications on one, and data on another?
 I personally have a single, large drive, partitioned into several drives
 for convenience. Two important things to remember about multiple drives:
 1. It's handy to be able to take one off-line occasionally.
 2. If you keep the stuff that changes most often on one drive, backup time
    is a lot less painful. I definitely separate applications and system
    software from my documents, for that reason.
>Which one is bootable? 
 One of your drives will probably spin up faster than the other. Why not
 make it bootable? If you do, you'll come up just a bit faster.
>If
>you do place applications on one, is there a method for bypassing the bit where
>SFGetfile looks in the applications directory for data files (an
>inconvenience)?
 That's funny. Last time I looked, SFGetfile started in the document's
 directory, which is handy.
-- 
=====================================================================
   Ed Anson,    Calcomp Display Products Division,    Hudson NH 03051
   (603) 885-8712,      anson@elrond.CalComp.COM