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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: The final accounting on LaCie's SilverLining. Post now!
Message-ID: <2127@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 10 Apr 90 16:41:03 GMT
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Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
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In article <3843.2621a673@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> a6ey@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (O) writes:
>
>    OK, I'm getting tired of this.  WHAT is the deal with
>    SilverLining?  I see a lot of people who are happy with it on the
>    net, and then I see a posting here and there which says that it
>    really stinks.  The people who don't like seem to mainly have
>    problems with rebooting from a massive system crash when there was
>    no way to gracefully restart.  This sort of system error is not
>    all that uncommon, so why don't all the other people with
>    SilverLining have this problem?

  OK.  Here goes.  I've had a LaCie Cirrus 105 for a few months now.  It was
formatted and partitioned with Silverlining 5.18.  The system: System: Mac
IIx, 5Mb RAM, LaCie 105Mb HD, System 6.0.4, Finder 6.1.4, Multifinder 6.1b7,
millions of inits (init cdev 3.0, Vaccine v1, GateKeeper Aid, AntiToxin INIT,
Sound Master, Color Arrow, Color Finder, Dimmer, Finder Sounds, IconWrap 1.2,
Logout 1.0, Master Strokes, Mouse2, OnCue, Pop-Keys, Rear Window MF, Scroll
Limit, SCSI, Smooth Clock, Suitcase II 1.2.6, SuperClock 3.1, SuperVideo,
WindowList, Boomerang 2.0, DeskPict, Randomizer, SUM Shield INIT).

  I program on this machine, and so I get some really interesting system
crashes.  I've also rebooted it numerous times with the programmer's switch,
and I've powered it down with the rear switch directly a few times.  I have
never EVER had any difficulty with the SilverLining software.  The drive
always reboots like a champ.  I do think it's some of the greatest software
since SlicedBread (4.11 :-)).  HOWEVER, their documentation does mention that
certain features aren't guaranteed to work with non-LaCie drives.  If I were
you, I'd give them a call, and ask for tech support.  They've always been very
friendly to me, but I'm always friendly to them.  Ask them what, if any,
problems are likely to arise if you use the software with a non-LaCie drive.

--Mike