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Number   :  58
Date     :  2001-05-17
Author   :  james sadler
Subject  :  Re: xxcopy switches, etc.
Size(KB) :  2



--- Jim Witherspoon  wrote:
> Jim S. -
> 
> I use the drive trays too! Great way to turn a
> cheapo IDE drive into a
> removable drive. IMO, one of the best backup
> solutions around.
> 
> Also - I make the other drives bootable - and my
> BIOS allows me to choose
> which drive to boot from. So I can "change
> computers" even without removing
> or rejumpering any hard drives - I just flip the
> switch in the BIOS. But,
> of course, the drive letters get reassigned, so that
> when you boot from what
> was your D: drive, it is now your C: drive, and what
> was your C: drive is
> now your D: drive.
> 
> jim w.
> 
> 
> > > Thanks for your response. I am really
> confused.
> > My Bios allows booting from CD and it is several
> years
> > old. Further adding to my confusion is the ability
> of
> > my CD drive to be treated as if it is a hard
> drive.
> > My computer is a bit unusual in that most of my
> drives
> > are on those pull out trays that you see
> advertised.
> > In essence I can replace my hard drive and boot
> what
> > ammounts to an entirely different computer with
> > another hard drive in seconds. But I also have a
> > permanently mounted hard drive that is nothing
> more
> > than a complete copy of my usual C: drive. Just so
> I
> > can get reall sea sick I also use a CastleWood Ord
> > drive. The whole mess is sort of a hobby for me.
> One
> > of the horrors is that when I have a big problem I
> > have tended to back up the problem and I end up
> > installing the problem over and over again. There
> are
> > times when backing up seems like the worst idea in
> the
> > world. But more to the point. I think that I can
> find
> > some real good uses for xxcopy if my knees don't
> > buckle from the strain.
> > Jim
> 
> I saw a neat gimmick at Tiger Direct. They have
an electronic unit that allows selecting which of
three hard drives is on at boot. Needless to say one
or more of those hard drives could be a removable tray
type of unit. In effect it really does allow infinte
storage on a computer. But the co-ordination of the
drives is going to fall back on programs like xxcopy
and God knows what else. One reason that I set up this
way is to have a Linux machine at hand by simply
slipping in another tray. I'm a bit of an old dog and
my memorey is not like a teenagers so downloading into
a Windows file, shuffling drives and trying to
remember to transfer a file to Linux can get really
way far out. Just to further punish myself, I'm trying
to learn FreeBSD. As xxcopy is growing the chances are
that somebody is trying to port it to Linux. They'll
have to be way deeper geek than me.


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