Finishing My Dual G5 Upgrades For Recording, Need help Cuz I'm a n00b! Options

[dinofond]

Greetings everyone, this is my first post. In the last 3 weeks I have re-tooled my project studio with a dual G5 1.8 running Logic 7.0 pro, 1.25 G/RAM PC3200 and a Motu 896HD. I should be picking up the second Hard Drive Tomorrow afternoon although I wish I had picked it up today. I have a degree in information systems but haven’t been on a MAC since college a few years back. I plan on a full new install when I install the second drive to keep it clean. My questions are these simple ones if someone can lend a hand:

When I put in my second drive to store samples and music on (Since the OS and Logic should run native on the main drive for performance) is there anything I should know as far as formatting and such? For example should I run partitions on either one of the drives for better performance? Should I use one specific format as opposed to another? Are their services running that should be shut off as you would a Linux or M$ machine?

Sorry if this makes no sense, it’s far past my bedtime. Thanks in advance for the help!

-Dino

[dixiechicken]

In my experience you should format your bootdrive without drivers for OS9.
This is only needed if you're going run the classic environment.
( which you should avoid - unless you really have to )
( these drivers make the the OS-X environment unstable )

You dont meed to be to concerned about partitions, this doesnt affect performance.
If you have Techtool Pro you can let it create the eDrive parttion om your boot drive.
Handy to run Techtool from another partition instead from the CD-rom.
Much faster.

You shouldnt have to worry to much about manually shutting down various services unless you really strain your system. Check your programs plug-ins drivers etc for Tiger compatibility - if Tiger is indeed the os your system's running on.

Cheers: Dixiechicken