t1f4387@helios.TAMU.EDU (Michael Farlow) (02/23/90)
I am looking for any information on Jasmine's DirectServe product. Specifically any experinces good or bad with the DirectServer and Jasmine in general. For those not familiar with the product, the DirectServe is basically a hard drive that has the AppleShare software built into it and is to be used as a headless (no keyboard or monitor) server. *ANY* information is appreciated and needed ASAP. Thank you, Michael Farlow Texas A&M University
amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) (02/23/90)
In article <4308@helios.TAMU.EDU> t1f4387@helios.TAMU.EDU (Michael Farlow) writes: >I am looking for any information on Jasmine's DirectServe product. >Specifically any experinces good or bad with the DirectServer and >Jasmine in general. > While this isn;t a direct reply to the question asked, I do have the following comments. 1. I really like the jasmine backpak family of products. Can't say one bad thing besides the serial number shouldn't be hiden inside after assembly. 2. I have heard a couple complaints about what I consider minor things. a. the exact drive size seems to change daily; i.e. 40 MB, 45MB, 40MB,... b. If a drive goes bad, that case seems to always get a bad drive. 1. This is related to a. after they stop using 40MB from 1 MFG they hold repairs on the availability of drives from the same MFG. 3. I have a current order for a 40MB (about) backpak. It was ordered in NOVEMBER, was supposed to be shipped in december, january, february, & now we are up to a expected MARCH ship. This isn't a special thing, it was just a simple 40 Mb backpak for a ++, any model drive I didn't care or even try to specify. Jasmine is VERY close to loosing all of my future recommendations. My purchasing Dept is saying we told you so, we always have this problem.... And I'm getting sick of hearing it, besides having a 1 floppy + sitting running out the warranty. al
6600bike@hub.UUCP (Puneet Pasrich) (02/24/90)
> In article <4308@helios.TAMU.EDU> t1f4387@helios.TAMU.EDU (Michael Farlow) writes: >I am looking for any information on Jasmine's DirectServe product. >Specifically any experinces good or bad with the DirectServer and >Jasmine in general. I run a Mac network and have a DirectServe w/ the DirectServe 180 hard drive. They have worked _beautifully_ for me and the network! It rarely crashes, and when it does --get this-- it reboots itself! So, network productivity is almost always up (well, if that's the intent of the network. :-) DirectServe drive is pretty fsat (18ms, I believe). Setting up toook about a whole five minutes, in contrast to AppleShare where it took me about two hours. I'd say 'Go for it!'. Good deal for me. Relativiely cheap - and fast. ___________________________________________________________ |Puneet Pasrich | Internet: 6600bike@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu | |Karate Kid | Bitnet: 6600bike@ucsbuxa.bitnet | |'Just do it!' | |
sivagnan@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu (S. Vasanthan) (02/24/90)
In article <2194@rodan.acs.syr.edu> amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu writes: In article <4308@helios.TAMU.EDU> t1f4387@helios.TAMU.EDU writes: >I am looking for any information on Jasmine's DirectServe product. >Specifically any experinces good or bad with the DirectServer and >Jasmine in general. > 3. I have a current order for a 40MB (about) backpak. It was ordered in NOVEMBER, was supposed to be shipped in december, january, february, & now we are up to a expected MARCH ship. This isn't a special thing, it was just a simple 40 Mb backpak for a ++, any model drive I didn't care or even try to specify. Jasmine is VERY close to loosing all of my future recommendations. Wait till you try to get your disk repaired. Have you tried calling their customer support phone line, let along the sales phone-line. It took me 2 weeks of continuous calling to get a work order, then another two weeks to try to know the repair status. Now I am awaiting parts, expected in a month for my Inner 70/SE. I don't know how long its going to take them to get it repaired after the parts arrival. -- Vasanthan Dept. of CS, CSU.
clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) (02/27/90)
In article <4308@helios.TAMU.EDU> t1f4387@helios.TAMU.EDU (Michael Farlow) writes: >I am looking for any information on Jasmine's DirectServe product. >Specifically any experinces good or bad with the DirectServer and >Jasmine in general. The most recent BYTE magazine features a review of the DirectServe. I found it very interesting and informative. <chaz> -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chaz Larson - clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu "Great Scott! This 9 foot alien woman is a swinger! ...and she has the hots for me!!!" - Flaming Carrot
LGEORGE@insted.unimelb.edu.au (Lord Vader) (02/27/90)
In article <4308@helios.TAMU.EDU>, t1f4387@helios.TAMU.EDU (Michael Farlow) writes: > I am looking for any information on Jasmine's DirectServe product. > Specifically any experinces good or bad with the DirectServer and > Jasmine in general. > > *ANY* information is appreciated and needed ASAP. > > Thank you, > > Michael Farlow > Texas A&M University I was playing with such a beast on the weekend. We seem to have found a funny problem with it. We were setting it up for a local hard disk, and we dragged 55+ meg onto the hard disk. This was fine until we found that the 55+ meg was occupying 68+ meg of disk space! Why? Who knows! One thing that I did notice in comparing this to a normal appleshare installation is that the device is no longer a mac hd, ie you can't connect it to another mac, say like to recover files from a crash. Once configured it does not have a system folder, and the desktop is of a special format, that is ResEdit [1.2] refused to open it, saying that it was locked, and trying to copy it to another device wouldnt work either, same reason. We concluded that the extra space was the device keeping track of priviliges and the such. The owner is going to ring the supplier and find out why he had lost ~20 meg off of his hard disk. The DirectDrive was attached to an 80 Meg Jasmine drive, so you can't get more compatable than that. Hope this helps. Sorry if it is a bit long. -- George Stamatopoulos #### ### La Trobe University - #### ### Lincoln School of Health Sciences #### ##### Computing Unit #### ##### incoln Melbourne #### Victoria ########## Australia ########## a Trobe