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From: rterry@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ray Terry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: The final accounting on LaCie's SilverLining. Post now!
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Date: 10 Apr 90 22:00:54 GMT
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>       Here's a challenge to all the people who say SilverLining is
>    the best thing since sliced bread.  As soon as you have time to
>    spare, find your SilverLining disks (just in case), and while in
>    some junk document in a program, press the programmers reset
>    switch to reboot the system.  Watch what happens.  Does your
>    machine just reboot happily, or do you have to re-install
>    SilverLining twice, like the doom-sayers claim you have to? 
>    Please post the result to the nets.  Thanks.
>

I have done that many many times.  I seem to remember problems with that
on old old flavors of Silverlining, but that ceased to be a problem since
moving to 5.17 (I think the newest newest is 5.22).  In any event, I have
not reinstalled Silverlining -or- had to use DiskFirstAid once since moving
to 5.17.

>       Here's a question to those people who think SilverLining has
>    the moral constitution of Wonder Bread.  What sort of system
>    software, hardware, etc, are you running?  Do you have the
>    absolute latest version?  Should you have an earlier version
>    because you aren't running the latest system software? 

I've -always- used the latest and greatest version of the system software
that Apple would send me (I have their electronic distribution license).
Currently on 6.0.5.

>    Have you talked to the REAL tech support at LaCie, or merely someone who

Yes, several times I have spoken to a person that actually knew something.
All I had to do was ask (to talk to a 'real' person).

Hope that helps.

Ray

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