Using the Removable Hard Disk
Overview
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SPARCbook Portable Workstation User Guide
Overview
Your SPARCbook’s hard disk can be removed easily when your system
is not in use and can be stored or carried separately. The removable hard
disk provides you with effective data security for your SPARCbook
when it is not in use and allows you to upgrade your hard disk very
easily as larger capacity disk drives become available.
It is possible for you to have several boot disks for several different
projects, or for different people who share a SPARCbook workstation
to each have their own boot disk.
For example, you may have a disk for use in your office and another
disk for use at home. Each could be stored securely when not in use and
each could contain the appropriate operating system configuration for
its designated location, with networking setup on your office disk and
dial-up client services set up on your home disk.
Using the Save and Resume feature, each disk can store a different
machine state that your SPARCbook Resumes when you next power on.
This means, for example, that when you power on with your home disk
fitted, your SPARCbook Resumes to the state Saved onto your home
disk.
Note
Your SPARCbook only stores Save data onto the
save
partiton on your hard
disk. When you initiate a Save, an OpenBoot flag is set in your SPARCbook’s
NVRAM that causes it to look for valid Save data on the disk when you next
power up.
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