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From: nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Silverlining bombs with Rodime S20+ (and others?)
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Date: 5 Jun 91 16:11:44 GMT
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My copy of Silverlining 5.28 arrived yesterday, so I thought I'd try it out
on a slow 20Meg Rodime here at work since my SE/30 is away for repair.

It runs now, but getting it going was total bombsville. All the read/write
tests would run fine, but Silverlining would freeze (mouse pointer and all)
when trying to install the drivers. It would freeze also when attempting to
format.

I've no idea how I got it working in the end; I ran Apple HD Setup on the
disk (OK, so the Rodime isn't an Apple disk but I thought I'd try it to
get the disk as clean as possible) - I think that might have cleared the
disk sufficiently for Silverlining not to get confused.

Oh: two Macs used for this, a Plus and an SE/30 with the Rodime plugged in
the back. Silverlining was giving me bus errors on the latter.

So: has anybody else had Silverlining bomb while installing drivers into a
disk of any kind? Just curious how common this problem is... (I'll be trying
it on the Quantum 40Meg internal on my SE/30 when I get it back...)

	Nick.

-- 
Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
                nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk    <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick
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