Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!att!mcdchg!laidbak!tellab5!wiseman From: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Experiences mail-ordering from APS? Message-ID: <4439@tellab5.tellabs.com> Date: 2 Nov 90 14:58:30 GMT References: <7005@tekchips.LABS.TEK.COM> <1990Nov1.023809.23007@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Sender: news@Tellabs.COM Distribution: usa Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle IL Lines: 19 In article Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn) writes: > >The ad in MacWeek talks about the "Alliance Power Tools" SCSI >formatter/Partitioner. What kind of partitioning does this use? Anyone >know how well this compares to something like Silverlining? When I got my 40M drive from APS, I took a quick look at the power tools but when I saw that the partitioning was no where near as good as silverlining's, I reformatted the drive (first verrryyy carefully backuping up the PD software archive they provided :-) :-) and loaded a silverlining driver. Some of the other utilities may be ok but silverlining has been around longer anyway and I like the way optimization and testing can be performed with silverlining (I havn't seen the new graphics utilities of silverlining yet, I'm still using version 5.22. I think that they are up to 5.27 now) -- Jeff Wiseman: ....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM