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Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 7:07 pm
Check it out and discuss!
Peace,
Drew
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tomlee59
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 12:58 am
That's a terrific article, Drew. I'm certain that this will help a ton of folks out there (myself included)! Thanks for putting that info together.
equill
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 9:51 am
I echo tomlee59's appreciation, with a couple or more of observations. One is a typo. Quandary rather than quandry.
I suggest that the potential risk in altering Drive Setup with ResEdit be ameliorated with a much-nearer-to-the-beginning injunction to hack a copy only of the app. This is a universal first step in use of ResEdit.
Third, you may be a little hard on Silverlining. This is from the Information pane of Silverlining about a partitioned 4.2GB IBM drive. Note that LaCie makes liberal, although not exclusive, use of Apple drivers:
Device Information
Manufacturer: IBM
Model: DCHS04F
Version: 2525
Supports the SCSI 2 standard
Total capacity = 4,438,526 KB
Total sectors = 8,877,052
Bytes per sector = 512
Cylinders (tracks) = 6,100
Heads (platters) = 9
Sectors = 184
Interleave = 1
Name of installed driver: .LaCie_SCSI (v6.2.1)
Reference number of Driver: -33
Partition 1
Name: Apple
Type: Apple_partition_map
Start block = 1
Block count = 63
Partition 2
Name: Macintosh_SL
Type: Apple_Driver43
Start block = 64
Block count = 128
Partition 3
Name: Macintosh_SL
Type: Apple_Driver_ATA
Start block = 192
Block count = 128
Partition 4
Name: IBM 500MB-2
Type: Apple_HFS
Start block = 320
Block count = 1,010,978
Partition 5
Name: Storage 1
Type: Apple_HFS
Start block = 1,011,298
Block count = 3,920,622
Partition 6
Name: Storage 2
Type: Apple_HFS
Start block = 4,931,920
Block count = 3,944,600
Partition 7
Name: Extra
Type: Apple_Free
Start block = 8,876,520
Block count = 532
The greatest impediment that Silverlining offers to Drive Setup is that the latter baulks at replacing it when that is attempted. Since one would not install Silverlining but to replace Drive Setup, that is not entirely a handicap. Yes, Silverlining finds it difficult to grasp some drives by the ears to mount them. So do FWB's HD ToolKit, InTech's HD SpeedTools and ATTO. This happenstance is rare-ish, and usually argues that a bigger hammer is needed. Reformatting from an existing FAT system is, however, usually a breeze with Silverlining, which has the great advantage of a much more illuminating GUI than any of the others.
de
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