🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1991Jan29.005311.7978@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> carsup@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Fisher Library support) writes:
  <<<stuff deleted>>>
>contain a particular INIT to find them. Now that I am using a Quantum, are
>there any disk partitioning software that does this? I don't like the SUM II
>option where you require a separate INIT to find these partitions. I don't
>want dressed up folders pretending to be partitions. I want something that
  <<<stuff deleted>>>
>P.S. Silverlining was proposed. I've noticed a DA and INIT so I don't know if
>it does it along the lines of SUM II's partitioning software.

No. Silverlining should do what you want although you should call their tech
support first to see if they handle the drive in question (1-800-999-0143 and
ask for tech support). I believe that the init is for sepcial SCSI devices that
don't mount themselves properly or something like that. I don't know since I
have never needed it. The DA replicates some of the functions in the
Silverlining utility itself. Since when you configure your disk to have
partitions, each one will mount separatly. You can configure whether or not the
volume is to mount at boot time or only mount when called to mount (it can
further have this operation password protected). The DA allows you mount
unmounted volumes and change their boot time behaviour (subject to the
protection settings for the volume).

One other thing that is really nice, if you want to change a partition's size,
with Silverlining you can usually do it WITHOUT having to re-initialize the
volume (I'M in LUUVVV with THIS feature!). Also, if you needed a 60 Mbyte
partition (say, for a database) and you only had 4 separate 40 Mbyte drives,
Silverlining can do it in a way that the partition "spans" the two drives in a
transparent fashion.

If LaCie supports your drive (and if it is a Quantum, I suspect that they do),
get Silverlining. I don't think that you'll ever regret it!

Hope this helps!

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