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Silverlining?
Authored by: Anonymous on Feb 12, '02 11:38:27AM
What's Silverlining? :-)

No, for the 4 LaCie drives i own, i never used this Silverlining software, you can do a custom install form the LaCie cd to install only the FireWire extension, this will show your disk ready to format.

The only drawback is that you cannot partition the drive under OS9, but Mac OS X can. My oldest LaCie FireWire drive is 1,5 years old, and has the factory FirmWare, but never did i encounter a problem...

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Silverlining?
Authored by: chardinej on Feb 12, '02 07:27:16PM

This is the second LaCie drive I've owned and both came preinstalled with Silverlining. It's a proprietary hard drive software that mounts, formats and you name it including write it's own drivers to the disk. The Tech support person at LaCie said that OS X would not like this and so the best bet is to reformat with the Apple Drive Utility.



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