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From: 6600bike@hub.UUCP (Puneet Pasrich)
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Subject: Re: Info wanted on Jasmine DirectDrive
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Date: 22 Jan 90 06:33:50 GMT
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From article <1990Jan17.201058.24959@phri.nyu.edu>, by roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith):
> 
> 	A few months ago, I asked for peoples' opinions on the Jasmine
> DirectServe.  A got a bunch of responses, mostly along the lines of "it looks
> good, but it's still vaporware, so I don't have any real data yet".  One or
> two people reported generally good experiences with the JDS in an earlier
> incarnation from another company.
> 
> 	Now that it's been shipping for a while, I'm repeating my query.  If
> you've got a DirectServe, I'd like to hear about your experiences with it.

Well, I own one (anyway, the district I work for does).  It's cool.
Now, that seems a lame thing to say.  but it really is.  I have to say
that it was a Major Pain-In-The-Ass to set up the original server (an
SE).  When we got the DirectServe, it took me about five minutes to set
it up.  The only hitch was that I had to back up my SErver and the
restore it to the DS, except it was via Appletalk, not SCSI.  That
slowed things down temporarily.  The nicest thing about the DS is that
it doesn't crash (in the month we've had it, it's only died twice,
whereas the SErver goes down every day.  If anyone knows why, I'd like
to know.  So far, I believe it's AppleShare's problem, and not the
hardware itself. 2.5megs. 107meg drive.)
 Also, DS is easy to maintain.  All I do is switch the hard drive on,
 and then the server itself and away she goes!)  As for problems:
 1) The read files, read folders, write permissions go I don't think DS
 follows them.  In Finder (the Appl, not the system) the permissions are
 followed.  But with something like On Cue, I've been able to access
 APPLs that guests are not supposed to (while I was logged on as guest).

 2) Software ain't great.  But then most of the stuff's in ROMs anyway.
 The Admin disk is sufficient, but I think Jasmine could have put
 something on it, that Apple does not.
  
 3) No standard SCSI hookups.  For me, that means no CD publishing.
 That was almost the reason I sent DS back.  I didn't, primarily because
 it's so much faster and more reliable than our SE.
  
  Oh well, that's my story.  Tell me what you decide!

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