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In article <427uib$qus@sun.sirius.com>, Jon Mandel <mandel@sirius.com> wrote:

> 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

Hello!
Were you using version 5.6.1? You did not mention this in your post. I
have been using this version, and have not had any problems. If you need
an update, there is a WWW site for LaCie....and suggest you get it, if you
are so inclined.

Cheers.