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From: tj@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Initialisation Software
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Date: 12 Apr 90 21:48:08 GMT
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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 
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