Elfen...
Thank you for your detailed post.
I thought I read some place that 7.5.3 can see a hard drive that is 4GBs large. But guess I was confused. With a 4GB CF card, I can make two, 2GB partitions. That would be quite nice.
You are absolutely correct about the lifetime of CF cards. The same is true for solid state hard drives. But I have noticed that some solid state hard drives are shipping with 5 year and 10 year warranty. But yes, after a while they poop out after so many reads and writes.
I suspect my CF card will out live me. But I intend to have it on a sled and a mechanical hard drive on a sled, and move between them from time to time. I bought directly from Amazon (not a Amazon 3rd party) when I bought my CF card, and yep, I agree, I would never buy used. I usually pay the big bucks and buy the better hardware rather then some off name brands. For example the CF card I bought from Amazon is made by SanDisk, probably in the top three best brand available. After I bought it, I read a bit more on CF cards. I have just learned about a CF card they make called "SanDisk Extreme Pro":
http://www.sandisk.com/products/memory-cards/compactflash/extremepro-160mbs/
That CF card comes with a lifetime warranty. It also occurred to me that I can buy just one AztecMonster Compact flash adaptor, and swap out CF cards if I like. The above SanDisk Extreme Pro smallest size is 16GBs. But maybe with partition software I can just make, say three partitions of 2GB and make the rest disappear? I am not sure about this. I sure do not want 8 hard drives sitting on my Color Classic desktop.
I have no other Macs other than my Color Classic. I had to sell them all. I am moving from the US to Ecuador and Ecuador customs will only allow me to bring two computers in. So I sold all my other computers, but for my color classic and a desktop PC/ubuntu desktop.
I did not know the difference between HFS and HFS +. Thanks for getting me up to speed on that. If I use HFS only, can I run software like Norton Disk Doctor or TecTools?
I have the maximum amount of RAM in my Color Classic. I will double check about Virtual RAM, but will now check again. I am not sure what System Logging is, but I will find it and turn it off. Again, something I was un aware of. - Thanks!!
In a past life I built super fast PCs for kids that play computer games - the kind of computers where they would have two $1,500.00 video cards in them, two ethernet ports, and two internet feeds to their home. So I always build on my workbench with a static wrist band on.
Have you ever used software called "Anubis Plus 3"? I bought it because it is suppose to init, partition and do other magic on non Apple equipment like partition a CF card.
I put it on my hard drive. Serious stuff!
I would like to make a floppy that would boot my color classic and also have the Anubis software on it so I can partition and init the CF card.
Can you advise me on how to make a bootable floppy to do this?
Thanks again for all your help.
jack
Thank you for your detailed post.
I thought I read some place that 7.5.3 can see a hard drive that is 4GBs large. But guess I was confused. With a 4GB CF card, I can make two, 2GB partitions. That would be quite nice.
You are absolutely correct about the lifetime of CF cards. The same is true for solid state hard drives. But I have noticed that some solid state hard drives are shipping with 5 year and 10 year warranty. But yes, after a while they poop out after so many reads and writes.
I suspect my CF card will out live me. But I intend to have it on a sled and a mechanical hard drive on a sled, and move between them from time to time. I bought directly from Amazon (not a Amazon 3rd party) when I bought my CF card, and yep, I agree, I would never buy used. I usually pay the big bucks and buy the better hardware rather then some off name brands. For example the CF card I bought from Amazon is made by SanDisk, probably in the top three best brand available. After I bought it, I read a bit more on CF cards. I have just learned about a CF card they make called "SanDisk Extreme Pro":
http://www.sandisk.com/products/memory-cards/compactflash/extremepro-160mbs/
That CF card comes with a lifetime warranty. It also occurred to me that I can buy just one AztecMonster Compact flash adaptor, and swap out CF cards if I like. The above SanDisk Extreme Pro smallest size is 16GBs. But maybe with partition software I can just make, say three partitions of 2GB and make the rest disappear? I am not sure about this. I sure do not want 8 hard drives sitting on my Color Classic desktop.
I have no other Macs other than my Color Classic. I had to sell them all. I am moving from the US to Ecuador and Ecuador customs will only allow me to bring two computers in. So I sold all my other computers, but for my color classic and a desktop PC/ubuntu desktop.
I did not know the difference between HFS and HFS +. Thanks for getting me up to speed on that. If I use HFS only, can I run software like Norton Disk Doctor or TecTools?
I have the maximum amount of RAM in my Color Classic. I will double check about Virtual RAM, but will now check again. I am not sure what System Logging is, but I will find it and turn it off. Again, something I was un aware of. - Thanks!!
In a past life I built super fast PCs for kids that play computer games - the kind of computers where they would have two $1,500.00 video cards in them, two ethernet ports, and two internet feeds to their home. So I always build on my workbench with a static wrist band on.
Have you ever used software called "Anubis Plus 3"? I bought it because it is suppose to init, partition and do other magic on non Apple equipment like partition a CF card.
I put it on my hard drive. Serious stuff!
I would like to make a floppy that would boot my color classic and also have the Anubis software on it so I can partition and init the CF card.
Can you advise me on how to make a bootable floppy to do this?
Thanks again for all your help.
jack