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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (2918)	10/14/1998 1:12:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Its probably a misunderstanding of my question, like Dave said. You are both diplomats I intuitively agree. Thats another good reason here to use 2 IDE instead ( lessening the unknown complexities.) With two matched drives , do you mean size as well? How would multiple clones of the primary fit onto a same size KOT unless Daves partitions were used on the primary and only the OS partition gets cloned? Relying on the other backups to restore non-cloned material.? Thats a question BTW. You likely have something else in mind to make same sized drives work. Yes size as well. My guess is that mismatched sizes will work without a problem. I go back and forth on the size issue. Yes, just clone the operating system and the primary operating programs ie, what you need to trade and access the Internet, SI etc. That is the basic concept of the KOT drive...a machine that always works. In the event of a drive failure or system crash..boot to the KOT and continue trading etc...and also use the KOT drive to execute Drive Image and restore Images from where ever they reside (or restore from tape). The success that Dave, Sean and others have had with Drive Image speaks for itself. One possible setup. Two 6.4+ GB IDE drives. Partition the first one with a primary partition of less than 2 GB. The second partition on the primary drive would then be 4+ GB. This would be for secondary applications...for example spreadsheets, word processors, TA etc. I believe Dave uses three partitions. The third to store Image files (in addition of course to storing them off line). With a second harddrive you could use the second partition on the second drive to store the Images that Dave stores on the third partition of the first drive. SparQ maybe, and an internal tape(master) and cd-rom(slave). Sounds good. Agree on all three. ( I do not know about the master/slave. Why is it better to have the tape the master?) Tape seems like a given..automated backup of both partitions on the primary drive seems hard to beat. IDE CDROM..also a given SparQ..I agree it's a maybe. I was not impressed with the reliability of the magnetic removable media as noted in your mac reference post. You could start with tape and see how well it suits your needs. Is the SparQ external SCSI? Cost seems like a factor here. I like the JAZ2 because of the 2GB size. I do not see the speed difference as a big issue. The TerraStor product has the potential of replacing tape and SparQ/Jaz. We should see some reviews soon. Did you figure out why NT couldn't find the SCSI drive? That would be a neat trick to get Nt onto the ScSi thru the back door via a cloned image. No. I think it is some kind of a catch 22. The host adapter driver probably has to be loaded sooner. I am rarely near a phone during Adaptec's normal business hours so it is difficult for me to talk to customer support. I ran into another snag. I wanted to clone my latest version of the primary partition to a KOT drive before playing with the IDE NT installation but Partition Magic wouldn't let me. The copy partition function was grayed out. I am guessing it a RAM thing. This machine only has 32 MB RAM. The copy function was available for the smaller partitions on my SCSI drives which leads me to the RAM theory. I will try using Drive Image to make the clone. Zeuspaul