> Preston, please set your mail reader to wrap lines. 74 characters per > line would be nice. Thank you. I wish I could. This is being sent (when I'm at work I have to use this) via the webmail my ISP provides. Sorry. :-( > Even without hot swapping, those removable drive carriers are a > disaster waiting to happen. I've taught in classrooms where everyone > had their own hard drive for each class and everyone plugged in at the > beginning of the class and unplugged at the end. We saw the carriers > wear out quickly. Loose contacts mean erratic failures, which meant > corrupted file systems. In once case, we had to re-install Linux > several times in a semester for one student. Eeek! > We didn't care all that much, as the hard drives' contents were > expendible. I doubt that's true of your home machine. Definitely. > Also, if you swap between two drives, you have no simple way to > transfer files between them. Having two drives in the computer gives > you this. > > Plus, why spend the money if you don't have to. > > For your own system, avoid them. Thanks. I probably will. It was just a passing thought I had to perhaps avoid whatever headaches might come from setting up the dual boot. That little line someone showed me earlier looked ingenious, but potentially unsafe. But then again, I know little about Grub or those drive bays, so that's why I asked. Preston
