wiseman@Tellabs.COM (Jeff Wiseman) (11/07/90)
The following is a response I sent to Jeff Kuskin that bounced but might also be of interest to others: > Iam considering ordering a drive from APS. However, like you, I now use > Silverlining on my Cirrus 40 Meg. Did you have any bad experiences > in getting Silverlining to work with the APS drive? Can you boot from > it, partition it, etc. Do all of Silverlining's utilities work with it? No problem at all, which actually makes sense since all the drive is is just a stock Quantum pro40. Silverlining is very good since it works on so many different drives. I have also used it to format old 20Meg miniscribe drives taken from macs that have been upgraded to 105 quantums. Also remember. The driver that silverlining installs is a standard SCSI type interface so as far as utilities go, it the driver works, the utilities should all work. I have had no problem so far. I think that the only way I would ever have a problem is if the disk were a 40 M quantum taken from a mac since Quantum puts different roms into the drives it sells to apple. If you have any questions, also try phoning LaCie's tech support and ask them what other kind of drives you can use it on. (their marketing might not tell you but the tech support would :-) :-). -- Jeff Wiseman: ....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM -- Jeff Wiseman: ....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM