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From: davism@creatures.cs.vt.edu (Mat Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LaCIE SYQUEST removable cartridge drives
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Date: 13 Jun 90 13:27:11 GMT
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In article <1059@carol.fwi.uva.nl> maarten@fwi.uva.nl (Maarten Carels) writes:
>lindahl@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Charlie Lindahl) writes:
>
>> A friend of mine purchased a SYQUEST 45M removable drive a few months ago. He
>> came over to my place to download some stuff, and we then discovered that 
>> the LaCIE formatter/INIT appears not to be compatible with the EHMAN 
>> counterparts (EHMAN makes an inexpensive---and reliable---SYQUEST drive). 
>
>The problem is that LaCie thinks that is is wise to use a non-standard 
>partition map on cartridges created with their SilverLining stuff.
>(...)  This means that their cartridges are only usable with their drivers.
>

What version of SilverLining is this?  My La Cie/SyQuest drive just came in
a few days ago, and I haven't noticed any problem.  I've set up one cartridge
for the Mac OS and two for A/UX, and the 'dp' partitioning program under A/UX
certainly doesn't seem to have any problem reading the SilverLining partition
map (and neither do the A/UX drivers, so far as I've seen). 

The only thing I've noticed is that the partition type for A/UX in Silver-
Lining was "UNIX_SVR2" (or something similar) instead of "Apple_UNIX_SVR2"
as A/UX defaults to, but that's certainly not major and SilverLining will
let you type in the correct type.

And SilverLining certainly beats 'dp' for setting up non-Apple drives
for A/UX!!!

	Mat Davis
	(davism@vtopus.cs.vt.edu)