hermitt@subway.dec.com (Tom Hermitt) (05/25/88)
Can anyone relate their experiences with Cirrus hard disks by LaCie? I would like to know about reliability, noise level, etc. Thanks. -- Tom Hermitt !subway.dec.com!hermitt
garth@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Garth Snyder) (05/25/88)
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In article 8805242007.AA05647@decwrl.dec.com (Tom Hermitt) writes:
Can anyone relate their experiences with Cirrus hard disks by LaCie?
I would like to know about reliability, noise level, etc. Thanks.
I've had a 60 M LaCie external for about seven months. It is truly an
awesome piece of hardware, and is fairly quiet. I would reccommend it
heartily.
At the time I bought mine it was the cheapest 60M on the market, I
think. Now there are others cheaper, but not by much.
The original unit I was shipped did not work correctly. LaCie replaced
it quickly. The drive comes with a 1-year warranty, although I don't
expect to have to use it; it has been very reliable.
The driver software is incredibly good.
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--------------------mpease@cvedc.UUCP (Mark Pease) (05/28/88)
In article <8805242007.AA05647@decwrl.dec.com> hermitt@subway.dec.com (Tom Hermitt) writes: >Can anyone relate their experiences with Cirrus hard disks by LaCie? >I would like to know about reliability, noise level, etc. Thanks. > >-- >Tom Hermitt !subway.dec.com!hermitt Well, I don't know about the HARDWARE that LaCie sells, but I have put there drivers (called Silver Lining) on my home built SCSI drive, and I LOVE them!! They allow you to have mutiple partitions on a single drive, or one partition that covers mutiple drives. Each partition can have a password, can be mounted at startup time or though a desk accessory later. There are mutiple modes the drivers can use to access the drive (Normal Mac Read/Write, Blind Mac Read/Write, Sliver Lining Read/Write, Sliver Lining Blind Read/Write). There are drive test routines to help select witch mode to run in (as well as checking the drive for correct opperation.) Also included with the drivers is a Program (Driver overlay??) called Silver Server that allows, when working with another mac with Silver Server, to transfer files back and forth over a modem. Why is this different that, say, kermit or xmodem you say? Well, the drive on the other mac is mounted just like the one on your mac! When you double click on the disk icon for the other mac, it open just like anyother disk. You can move files from one disk to another, double click and execute a application from the remote disk, anything you can do to a disk, you can do to the remote one! I have yet to have any problems with the software, but I have not realy used Silver Server yet. I recomend to any one that is building there own drive (or for that matter, Siver Server/Silver Lining will install on most Commercial drives.) -- Mark Pease ..tektronix.csnet!ogcvax.uucp!cvedc!mpease Computervision ..sun.arpa!cvbnet.uucp!cvedc!mpease 14952 N.W. Greenbrier Pkway Beavertion, Oregon 97006 (503)645-2410
macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak) (05/29/88)
In article <565@cats.cvedc.UUCP> mpease@cats.UUCP (Mark Pease) writes: >In article <8805242007.AA05647@decwrl.dec.com> hermitt@subway.dec.com (Tom Hermitt) writes: (quote from previous article deleted) >Well, I don't know about the HARDWARE that LaCie sells, but I have put there >drivers (called Silver Lining) on my home built SCSI drive, and I LOVE them!! (some info deleted) >I have yet to have any problems with the software, but I have not realy used >Silver Server yet. I recomend to any one that is building there own drive >(or for that matter, Siver Server/Silver Lining will install on most >Commercial drives.) The LaCie Silver Server/Silver Lining software sure sounds like it is more useful and offers more varied capabilities than some of the utilities from other drive manufacturers. However, is it really legal to use this sort of software on our homebrew drive or your drive from another company if you have not purchased a LaCie drive and software? Please note I am not accusing the above writer of anything; for all I know he also owns a LaCie drive. However, I'd like to raise this issue since the recommendation has been made to use the LaCie software and I'd like to know, should I be in the position someday to use the Silver Server/Silver Lining software, if I could legally do so without buying it. Jim -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Jim --> macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak) {Standard disclaimer, nothin' fancy!} >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm) (06/01/88)
>The LaCie Silver Server/Silver Lining software sure sounds like it is more >useful and offers more varied capabilities than some of the utilities from >other drive manufacturers. However, is it really legal to use this sort of >software on our homebrew drive or your drive from another company if you have >not purchased a LaCie drive and software? > >I'd like to know, should I be in the position someday to use the Silver Server/Silver Lining software, if I could legally do so without buying it. No, you cannot use Silver Lining without buying "it." "It," however, no longer implies buying the drive. When Silver Server came out, they packaged a disk with Silver Server and Silver Lining together, and now sell it separately from the drives. -- -Brian Diehm (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply) Tektronix, Inc. briand@tekig4.TEK.COM or {decvax,cae780,uw-beaver}!tektronix!tekig4!briand
mpease@cvedc.UUCP (Mark Pease) (06/01/88)
In article <710@lakesys.UUCP> macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak) writes: >In article <565@cats.cvedc.UUCP> mpease@cats.UUCP (Mark Pease) writes: >>In article <8805242007.AA05647@decwrl.dec.com> hermitt@subway.dec.com (Tom Hermitt) writes: > >>Well, I don't know about the HARDWARE that LaCie sells, but I have put there >>drivers (called Silver Lining) on my home built SCSI drive, and I LOVE them!! > >... However, is it really legal to use this sort of >software on our homebrew drive or your drive from another company if you have >not purchased a LaCie drive and software? > >Jim > Well, I bought SS/SL from LaCie directly after seeing a demo of it (them?) at the local user group general meeting. They will sell the software seperate from there hardware, and the manual (as well as several buttons in the software) states that it can be installed on other manufactures hardware. They had no problem selling me SS/SL, I told them up front that I was putting it on drive. By the way, My system is a 30M CDC drive with an Adaptec 4000A SCSI controller. I told the people there that info as well. To use SS/SL on my disk, I first had to have it formated. I used a PD formatter that came down the net sometime ago. -- Mark Pease ..tektronix.csnet!ogcvax.uucp!cvedc!mpease Computervision ..sun.arpa!cvbnet.uucp!cvedc!mpease 14952 N.W. Greenbrier Pkway Beavertion, Oregon 97006 (503)645-2410