Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!tellab5!wiseman
From: wiseman@tellab5.TELLABS.COM (Jeff Wiseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: LaCie's Silverlining partition protection
Keywords: password SCSI partition mount
Message-ID: <1906@tellab5.TELLABS.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 89 14:18:24 GMT
Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle, IL
Lines: 22


I recently spent some time talking with LaCie's technical support people about
several questions that I had, one of them regarding the fact that thier
Partioning password mechanism (in silverlining) could be bypassed by some SCSI
mounting utilities (there was a posting on this a little ways back).
Mr. Lewis Macken of LaCie's Tech support staff asked me to pass along
the information to the network that this problem has been known
for a while and has purportedly been fixed in release 5.2 of silverlining.

I am to understand that if you have earlier 5.X releases you can get an update
for something like $5 and sending in the original disk. Earlier releases are a
little more expensive for the upgrade ( I think it was something like $39 from
LaCie). LaCie's number is 1-800-999-0143 and you can get both sales and tech
support from the same number.

My only relation with LaCie is that I own a 40M external drive that I bought
from them and I like it so much and the service that I've received that any
other hard disks I purchase will likely be from them. I also Luuuuuuv
Silverlining!

-- 
Jeff Wiseman:	....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM