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In article <8805242007.AA05647@decwrl.dec.com> hermitt@subway.dec.com (Tom Hermitt) writes:
>Can anyone relate their experiences with Cirrus hard disks by LaCie?  
>I would like to know about reliability, noise level, etc.   Thanks.
>
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>Tom Hermitt        !subway.dec.com!hermitt

Well, I don't know about the HARDWARE that LaCie sells, but I have put there
drivers (called Silver Lining) on my home built SCSI drive, and I LOVE them!!

They allow you to have mutiple partitions on a single drive, or one partition
that covers mutiple drives. Each partition can have a password, can be mounted
at startup time or though a desk accessory later. There are mutiple modes the
drivers can use to access the drive (Normal Mac Read/Write, Blind Mac
Read/Write, Sliver Lining Read/Write, Sliver Lining Blind Read/Write). There
are drive test routines to help select witch mode to run in (as well as checking
the drive for correct opperation.)

Also included with the drivers is a Program (Driver overlay??) called 
Silver Server that allows, when working with another mac with Silver Server,
to transfer files back and forth over a modem. Why is this different that, say,
kermit or xmodem you say? Well, the drive on the other mac is mounted just
like the one on your mac! When you double click on the disk icon for the other
mac, it open just like anyother disk. You can move files from one disk to
another, double click and execute a application from the remote disk, anything
you can do to a disk, you can do to the remote one!

I have yet to have any problems with the software, but I have not realy used
Silver Server yet. I recomend to any one that is building there own drive
(or for that matter, Siver Server/Silver Lining will install on most
Commercial drives.)


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