Added a 1TB My Book to the home network!
Even though I am a huge fan of the Mac, I have never actually partitioned a drive on it. Granted, I had many years experience partitioning on a PC, because I would format every 3 months because the registry... errr, nevermind.
I used some Best Buy gift cards from Christmas to buy the My Book 1TB drive. I think the total only came to about $150 dollars... that is not bad for 1000 Gigabytes! The process could not be simpler to setup with Time Machine. However, I did not want to use the whole 1TB as my sole backup for Time Machine. So, I went into Disk Utility and hit the "plus sign" to make a partition. I dragged the slider up and down to adjust (I decided on 320GB for Time Machine backups allowing me almost 700GB for additional storage.
My iMac hard drive is only 160GB) the partition sizes and ta-da, I was all set! Here is a picture of the screen to adjust the partion size. I love OS X Leopard!!!
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I had a 3rd party router a while back with Tiger and whenever I would connect to it with WPA enabled, it would completely crash my entire notebook. I contacted the vendor and their response was : "We're sorry, while we do assist Apple in these matters, they generally handle all of the issues themselves so you need to contact them."
I contacted Apple and after waiting an hour on hold was told this:
Apple: A patch is imminent and we are aware of the problem
Me: How long until it's fixed and what should I do in the meantime.
Apple: We've been recommending in the forums that people turn off any encryption.
Me: So the answer on this secure operating system is to turn off any sort of wireless security because it crashes the entire OS
Apple: Yes sir that is the best that we can offer at this time
Four months later a patch was issued.