Recent content by monmeehan

like a charm, everyone! (so far, anyway) :D Thanks again for all your help! _Monica oooohhh... "man friday!" i like that! what every girls needs — a man Friday, and a Slave! ;)

ah, I see, it's the software, not the hardware — hooray for UNIX things! ...even if I'm still unclear on them. :D (Guess I'm still kind of old-school — does anyone else remember playing stupid hardware tricks with SCSI daisychains and fussy RAM DIMM chips? eeeesh.) I've downloaded CCC and...

barhar — oop, my bad. Slave is (approxiamtely) 130 GB. It's currently insatlled, formatted as Journaled HFS+ I've been using it for file storage for months w/no problems. rhisiart — serial ATA controller card? and isn't it, like, midnight in Wales? or Wednesday? ;) _Monica

rhisiart — thanks for the, oops, you just posted agian! ok, jbarley posted before you... aaagh! posting overlap mania! _Monica

jbarley — That sounds pretty easy, but doesn't it make a difference where the drives are, physically, along the ATA Bus? According to System Profiler, the mount point for Fred is "/" but the mount point for Slave is "/Volumes/Slave" _Monica

hi, thought I'd ask for advice/directions BEFORE I did something dumb! :rolleyes: I'm running a hand-me-down 400 MHz PowerPC G4 / OS X 10.3.9 / 704 MB memory / 10 Gb main hard drive. Because the main HD (let's call it "Fred") was so small, I also went out and bought + installed an extra...