Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!ll-xn!husc6!mailrus!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!mfi From: mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Need info on Mac MIDI and Jasmine Message-ID: <16574@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 12 Jul 88 19:11:22 GMT References: <127200033@inmet> <17000117@clio> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu () Organization: UF CIS Department Lines: 30 In article <17000117@clio> brewer@clio.las.uiuc.edu writes: > > The problems occur with the driver software. In general, it looks prettyslick, with multiple, automount, password-protectable partitions, that can be >accessed from a DA. BUT, there is a _MAJOR_ fatal flaw in their driver. If for >any reason you are forced to do a 'dirty' restart (like hitting the programmers >switch, or pulling the plug) it trashes the disk directory. Your drive will not [stuff deleted] > > Oops, forgot to say that these experiences are with the Cirrus 80 drive >from LaCie, on my Mac II. LaCie says the problem is with the disk cache, and >so only occurs with the 80 Meg model, but I would trust them about as far as I >can throw them. > I have three friends including myself who have mac+'s and 30 or 40 meg external drives. I have never had any of the problems you describe and we are totaly delighted with the capabilities of the silver lining software. From my sample of 4 drives over a 7 month purchase period the problem is not occuring on the smaller drives. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Interrante Software Engineering Research Center mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu CIS Department, University of Florida 32611 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sky clenched, a mountain of mud convulsed, earth and sky bellowed at each other, there was a horrible pinkness, a sudden greenness, a lingering orangeness that strained the clouds, and then the light sank and the night at last was deeply, hideously dark. --- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency