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From: billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Jasmine Drive Formatting
Message-ID: <3f9081ff.9176@lotus.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 88 15:27:00 GMT
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Reply-To: billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger)
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In article <11052@cup.portal.com> Mark_Peter_Cookson@cup.portal.com writes:
>I also own a Jasmine DirectDrive 140 and like it very much (have had it for 3
>months).  I have version 1.9 (or something like that) of Jasmine's DriveWare.
>Two things I would like to point out, Jasmine's Driveware is faster than
>Rodime's, and it also supports REAL (read bootable) SCSI partitions.  Not to
>mention the fact that it was made for your drive.  I have not used Rodime's
>driver for anything more than speed comparison so I don't know how it rates
>in the long run, but I much perfer Jasmine's.  Also, all DirectDrives are
>to be formatted at 1:1 since they have a cache and they are plug and go on
>a Plus (what I have) an SE or a II.  I would put the drive back to 1:1 if you
>put it on 2:1 since that was not how it was written to run.  Other than that
>you should enjoy the drive.  Let me know what you think of the drive and
>using the Rodime driver.
>
>Mark Cookson