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From: billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Jasmine Drive Formatting
Message-ID: <3f90e36b.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 88 17:15:00 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

	I own a Rodime 140, and so do you.  Jasmine's drives (the new,
plastic-cased ones) are Rodimes.  Unfortunately, there is a way to tell which
Rodimes were sold to Jasmine, and Jasmine DriveWare will only recognize
Jasmine drives.  My Rodime 2.03 partitions are no less REAL than yours, even
if they aren't bootable.  Just try getting SUM to recognize mine or yours.
Finally, I would look twice at that cache you are so proud of.  Where in your
manual does it say you have a cache?  Where in their advertising does it
mention a cache?  As far as I can tell it was dropped when they switched to
the plastic-cased drives.  If I am wrong, please e-mail me, though (I don't
like being wrong twice).  I also know that Rodime is hard at work on a new
driver (3.0) which allows selection of a boot partition.

(sorry about that previous message, I'm not sure what happened)

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