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From: LGEORGE@insted.unimelb.edu.au (Lord Vader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Jasmine DirectServes
Message-ID: <2665@insted.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 26 Feb 90 19:58:09 GMT
References: <4308@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Distribution: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: La Trobe University - Lincoln School of Health Sciences
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In article <4308@helios.TAMU.EDU>, t1f4387@helios.TAMU.EDU (Michael Farlow) writes:
> I am looking for any information on Jasmine's DirectServe product.
> Specifically any experinces good or bad with the DirectServer and
> Jasmine in general.
> 
> *ANY* information is appreciated and needed ASAP.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Michael Farlow
> Texas A&M University 

I was playing with such a beast on the weekend.  We seem to have found a funny 
problem with it.  We were setting it up for a local hard disk, and we dragged 
55+ meg onto the hard disk.  This was fine until we found that the 55+ meg was 
occupying 68+ meg of disk space!  Why? Who knows!  One thing that I did notice 
in comparing this to a normal appleshare installation is that the device is no 
longer a mac hd, ie you can't connect it to another mac, say like to recover 
files from a crash.  Once configured it does not have a system folder, and the 
desktop is of a special format, that is ResEdit [1.2] refused to open it, 
saying that it was locked, and trying to copy it to another device wouldnt work 
either, same reason.  We concluded that the extra space was the device keeping 
track of priviliges and the such.  The owner is going to ring the supplier and 
find out why he had lost ~20 meg off of his hard disk.
The DirectDrive was attached to an 80 Meg Jasmine drive, so you can't get more 
compatable than that.
Hope this helps.  Sorry if it is a bit long.

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