RG: Is a separte hdd much better than a separate partition?

[Rossier]

Setting up a new Master hdd in a 300A celery @464. Is there any significant difference between a separate hdd with a partition for swapfile as opposed to just a partition on the new and spacious hdd? Thanks

[KillerBug]

I would think so, the SWAP file is like RAM, only on the hard drive. If you have 1 drive writing to a swap file, and reading to write to the swap file, it would make a difference, however, since the size of aa hard drive you would use for a swap file would be like 500mb tops, then that drive would most likely be slow, so partion away!

[Perce]

There is a difference, minor, but if you set the drives up using the Primary controller HDD for the boot partition and the swap file up on the Secondary Controller HDD, you can read and write to them at the same time

If your going to do this, the speed of the drives and the cache size also factor in If both HDDs are the same, then it will not mater which one is on which controller

[Rossier]

Hi Perce,

I am a little curious as to how it will play out. I am wondering where IBM sets up the 2GB cache on the hdd. Because that may have a say where the swapfile goes, per order. Seems I was looking at six partitions, but can't remember if that included the swapfile or not. I am going to make a local inquiry on where IBM places the big cache file. "I'll be back!!!"