WARNING: SilverLining

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From: Jon Mandel
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 21:39

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WARNING

Do not use LaCie's SilverLining software unless you fully 
intend to reformat the drive you select.  This software will 
write to your SCSI drive without obtaining verification from 
you first.

My particular situation was as follows.  I have a 1080M drive 
partitioned and formatted under Win95 into 2 520M partitions. 
I mounted it on a Mac in order to burn a CD from one of the 
partitions.  At one point we were moving things from drive to 
drive to prepare for the burn.  We were considering 
reformatting my drive as an HFS volume, so we launched 
SilverLining.  We decided against reformatting after we looked 
at the SilverLining drive configuration dialog.  We cancelled 
out.  When I attempted to remount my drive on either system, 
my partition information was gone.

To reiterate: SilverLining wrote to my drive *before* I 
approved any action.  I never moved into or beyond the format 
confirmation dialog.  Be careful.  This software is dangerous.

-Jon

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From: Jon Mandel <mandel@sirius.com>
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Date: 1 Sep 1995 21:39:23 GMT
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