mamcCloud@lbl.gov (Michael McCloud) (04/05/90)
I'd recommend that you get a copy of La Cie, Ltd's "SilverLining 5.2". I
have used it to initialize darn near any type of Hard drive there is ( am
currently running a Wren II 43 Meg ST-412 interface drive with an SMS
OMTI 3105 ST-412 to SCSI Controller ). The software has excellent
documentation and allows you to format, initialize and hard partition
(i.e. - no special INIT for partition mounting), test, map out bad blocks
etc.
SilverLining can only be bought through La Cie ( at a cost of
approximately $90, I believe ).
Their Address is:
La Cie, Ltd.
16285 SW 85th #306
Tigard, OR 97724
Tel # (503) 684-0143
I hope you find this information useful. Don't Email to me please, I don't
yet have an Email address.
Disclaimer - - My opinions are my own.
Michael McCloud
Mailstop 51-208
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, Ca. 94720
(415) 486-5373pdel@zodiac.ADS.COM (Peter Delevoryas) (04/09/90)
>I'd recommend that you get a copy of La Cie, Ltd's "SilverLining 5.2".
Seconded! I just lost one of my drives to a power-out at home (my fridge
'hiccups' sometimes and sends out nasty voltage spikes, tripping the circuit
breaker). I couldn't do anything to it with anything other than Silverlining.
On an unrelated note, I've had only problems with this seagate drive in
this box that a surplus store sold me. Main problem seems to be that it
doesn't auto-park the heads. My Jasmine 80 direct-drive has had no problems
going through power-cycles, power-outs, etc.(the Jasmine has auto-park heads).
Peter D.brady@swift.cs.tcd.ie (04/09/90)
First, I'd like to thank everyone who gave me advice about disk initialisation software - *every* one of you recommended SilverLining, so I ordered it direct. One question that arises is this: it seems that some versions (?) of SL use an INIT to remember the partitions made. Does this mean that the hard disk so partitioned can't be used as a boot disk? If so that's a real bummer, n'est ce pas? Mike
sls@zodiac (Shelley L. Shostak) (04/10/90)
In article <5316@helios.ee.lbl.gov> mamcCloud@lbl.gov (Michael McCloud) writes: >I'd recommend that you get a copy of La Cie, Ltd's "SilverLining 5.2". I >have used it to initialize darn near any type of Hard drive there is ( am > >Disclaimer - - My opinions are my own. > >Michael McCloud >Mailstop 51-208 >Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory >1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, Ca. 94720 >(415) 486-5373 We have 4 80MB disk bought from LaCie. They were formatted with Silver Lining 5.2/06. THEY SUCK BIG TIME! If you hit the reset switch or have a power failure, the disk cannot be mounted. You have the option to initialize the disk, which many users do without realizing what this operation does. The only way to get the disk to mount is to use SilverLining to mount the disk TWICE, then it will tell you it has a bad master directory and use Disk First Aid. The idiots at LaCie told me that that was SUPPOSED to happen and that you shouldn't reset your mac! I WOULD AVOID LACIE LIKE THE PLAGUE! Shelley Disclaimer: These opinions are my own. -- Shelley L. Shostak (919) 684-8279 Duke University Dept. of Physics sls@zodiac.phy.duke.edu Durham, N.C. 27706
tj@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson) (04/13/90)
In article <18813@duke.cs.duke.edu> sls@zodiac.phy.duke.edu (Shelley L. Shostak) writes: >We have 4 80MB disk bought from LaCie. They were formatted with Silver >Lining 5.2/06. THEY SUCK BIG TIME! If you hit the reset switch or have >a power failure, the disk cannot be mounted. You have the option to > >I WOULD AVOID LACIE LIKE THE PLAGUE! > > Shelley L. Shostak (919) 684-8279 > Duke University Dept. of Physics sls@zodiac.phy.duke.edu > Durham, N.C. 27706 I use SilverLining all of the time on dozens of hard drives, ranging from Quantum 80s and 105s to MicroNet 20s and 30s to Wren 173s. I have never seen a problem like this before. The machine I am using now has a Q280 and a Wren 173 attached--I hit the reset switch all of the time without a problem. All of the macs in our public labs have been formatted with SilverLining so we can partition the drives into multiple volumes, complete with different passwords for each partition. I can wholeheartedly recommend Silver Lining. Tom Johnson UCLA Computer Science Department 3413 Boelter Hall, Los Angeles CA 90024 (213)825-6952 UUCP: {uunet,rutgers,ucbvax}!cs.ucla.edu!tj Internet: tj@cs.ucla.edu