Silverlining® Lite is a program which provides essential Macintosh drive management functions. Use Silverlining Lite to quickly mount and unmount volumes, change SCSI polling preferences, format drives, and erase volumes. Use Silverlining Lite with all of your SCSI drives.
Silverlining Lite makes it easy to work with removable cartridge drives by automatically mounting an icon on the desktop when a cartridge is inserted. Without Silverlining Lite, you would need to use SCSI Probe, Silverlining, or some other similar program to manually mount an icon after each cartridge is inserted.
To install Silverlining Lite:
1. Start up from your primary drive.
2. Remove all copies of Silver Volumes and Silver Control from the System Folder of your startup drive before installing Silverlining Lite.
Silverlining Lite replaces Silver Volumes and Silver Control so these two files are no longer needed.
3. Copy the Silverlining Lite icon to the System Folder icon of the startup drive.
For System 7 users, the Silverlining Lite icon will be placed in the Controls Panel folder automatically.
4. Restart the Macintosh.
To open Silverlining Lite:
1. Choose Silverlining Lite from the Control Panels menu in the Apple menu.
You can also open the Silverlining Lite window by double-clicking the Silverlining Lite icon.
Note: Once Silverlining Lite is installed, you may see a dialog box when you insert a new or uninitialized cartridge into your drive. Clicking on Initialize will automatically format and initialize the new cartridge into one Macintosh volume without running Silverlining Lite.
Silverlining Lite control panel
 
1. SCSI buses, devices, and volumes
The portion of the window above the buttons lists all available SCSI buses, devices, and volumes. For each device, the type, SCSI ID, and description appear. For each volume, the name, capacity, and free space appears. Click to select a SCSI bus, device or volume. Use the scroll bar to display additional entries.
2. Triangle
Click a triangle to the left of a SCSI bus or device name to display nested devices or volumes.
3. About button
Displays version and copyright information.
4. Prefs button
Allows you to set general program preferences for startup icon, SCSI bus scanning, driver removal, and formatting specifications. See “Setting Preferences” for details.
5. Mount and Unmount buttons
These buttons allow you quickly mount and unmount volumes from the desktop. You can also mount or unmount a volume by double-clicking its name. Unmounted volumes appear dimmed in the Silverlining Lite window. See “Mounting and Unmounting Volumes” for details.
6. Options
Allows you to set preferences for the selected SCSI bus, device, or volume. Options include driver installation at startup and ejection of cartridges. See “SCSI Bus, Device, and Volume Options” for details.
7. Setup
Formats a drive or erases a volume. See “Setting up a Drive or Volume” for details.
8. Info
Displays information about the selected drive’s firmware, drivers, and partitions, including “invisible” partitions. See “Displaying SCSI Bus, Device, and Volume Information” for details.
9. Scan button
Rescans the SCSI busses and displays all available volumes.
Set Preferences
Use this command to set general program preferences for startup icon, SCSI bus scanning, driver removal, and formatting specifications.
To set preferences:
1. Open the Silverlining Lite window.
2. Click the Preferences button.
 
3. Select the desired preferences:
Show Icon at Startup Select to have the icon displayed on the screen during startup.
Dynamic Scan of SCSI Bus Select to have the Macintosh periodically poll the SCSI bus for new devices. When selected, Silverlining Lite automatically updates the list of devices found on the SCSI bus.
Remove Drivers when Cartridge Unloaded Select this option if you want the Silverlining driver removed when a cartridge is ejected. Leave this option selected if you use cartridges formatted with different utilities. You may want to deselect this option if all your cartridges are initialized with the same drivers. For example, leave this option deselected if you initialize all your cartridges with Silverlining Lite and Silverlining.
Expert Options for Drive Setup (Format) Select this to have detailed options appear when you format a drive.
Mounting and Unmounting Volumes
These buttons allow you quickly mount and unmount volumes from the desktop. You can also mount or unmount a volume by double-clicking its name.
To mount or unmount volumes:
1. Open the Silverlining Lite window.
2. Click to select a volume.
You cannot mount or unmount CPU’s, tape drives, and other devices that don’t mount on the desktop.
3. Click Mount to a mount the volume on the desktop. Click Unmount to unmount the volume
Unmounted volumes appear dimmed in the Silverlining Lite window.
Unable to get a cartridge icon to mount? The Macintosh automatically loads the driver for available SCSI devices at startup. To force the loading of a cartridge’s driver, shut down the Macintosh, insert a cartridge, wait for the cartridge to spin up, and then start up the Macintosh.
SCSI Bus, Device, and Volume Options
Allows you to set preferences for the selected SCSI bus, device, or volume.
To set preferences for a SCSI bus:
1. Open the Silverlining Lite window.
2. Click to select a SCSI Bus entry.
For example, select “Bus 0: Internal SCSI bus” to select the Macintosh built-in SCSI bus.
3. Click Options.
 
4. Select the drives that you want installed on the selected SCSI addresses at startup.
Removable Drive on Any SCSI Port: When this box is selected, Silverlining Lite loads a driver for each removable device it finds at startup time and periodically polls all SCSI addresses for removable cartridges. When a cartridge is inserted in the drive, the cartridge icon will appear on the desktop.
If you want Silverlining Lite to load a driver and poll only specific SCSI IDs, deselect this option and select the box labeled Any Drive on SCSI Port for the desired port. See the next option.
Any Drive on SCSI port: Select a box to make Silverlining Lite load a driver for the device at startup. If the device is a removable device, Silverlining Lite periodically polls this SCSI address for removable cartridges.
5. Click OK to save the settings.
To set preferences for a device:
1. Open the Silverlining Lite window.
2. Click to select a Device entry.
3. Click Options.
 
4. Select the desired options:
Any Drive on SCSI port ?: Select this box to make Silverlining Lite load a driver for the device at startup. If the device is a removable device, Silverlining Lite periodically polls this SCSI address for removable cartridges.
Auto Eject: Select this option if you wish to have a cartridge automatically ejected when all of its volume are unmounted. This option is only available if the cartridge drive has a motorized mechanism to eject the disk.
5. Click OK to save the settings.
To set preferences for a volume:
1. Open the Silverlining Lite window.
2. Click to Volume entry.
3. Click Options.
 
4. Select the desired options.
Lock Now: Select this option to prevent the data on the volume from being modified. A lock icon appears alongside any locked volume’s name in the Silverlining Lite window. You can easily unlock a volume (without a password) using Silverlining Lite or Silverlining.
Mount at Startup: Select to have the volume mounted at startup. This option is enabled only if the device has the Silverlining driver installed. If this option is deselected, the volume will not appear on the desktop until you run Silverlining Lite or Silverlining to mount it.
Startup Volume: Select this option to make the volume the startup volume. This option is available only when the volume contains a valid System Folder.
Lock at Startup: When selected, the volume will be automatically locked at startup. This prevents the data on the volume from being modified. A lock icon appears alongside any locked volume’s name in the Silverlining Lite window. You can easily unlock a volume (without a password) using Silverlining Lite or Silverlining.
Setting up a drive or volume
Use Silverlining Lite to format drives and erase volumes.
Formatting is a time-consuming process and should be performed only when absolutely necessary. Most drives come pre-formatted and should not require formatting for the life of the drive. Considering reformatting when Silverlining Lite indicates that it is unable to access data on the drive because the driver and directory files cannot be recognized or have been corrupted beyond repair. Formatting destroys the data on ALL volumes of the drive. Silverlining Lite will format only those drives that support 512-byte sectors.
Erasing a volume removes the directory files on the volume. This process usually takes less than a minute, even for larger volumes. You can erase one volume of a drive without affecting the data on other volumes of the same drive.
Warning! Be sure to back up the data on all volumes before formatting a drive or initializing a volume. Formatting erases all of the data on all volumes of the drive; the information is gone forever and recovery programs cannot bring it back. Erasing removes the directory files on a volume, making it difficult to locate file data even with a data recovery program.
To format a drive:
1. Back up the data on all volumes of the drive.
2. Restart from a separate volume that contains Silverlining Lite.
3. Open Silverlining Lite.
4. Click the name of the device you wish to format.
5. Click Format.
 
If you selected the preference “Expert options for Drive Setup (Format),” the three boxes appear. Select the desired boxes.
 
Format Select this option to format the drive.
Test Media Select this option to test all sectors of the drive media.
Create File System Select this option to create a new file system on the drive.
5. Click Format.
A final warning appears indicating that all information on the selected volume will be destroyed.
 
6. Click OK to continue with the format.
Silverlining Lite will format the drive.
To initialize a volume:
1. Back up the data on the volume that you wish to erase.
2. Restart from a separate volume that contains Silverlining Lite.
3. Open Silverlining Lite.
4. Click the name of the volume you wish to initialize.
5. Click Erase.
 
6. Click Erase.
A final warning appears indicating that all information on the selected volume will be destroyed.
 
Silverlining Lite will erase the volume and create a new volume.
Displaying SCSI Bus, Device, and Volume Information
Use Silverlining Lite to display information about a SCSI bus, device, or volume.
• SCSI bus Includes information about the SCSI bus or SCSI host adapter.
• Device For drives, the information displayed is determined by the drive’s firmware or is specified when the drive is formatted. For CPUs and other devices, Silverlining Lite displays configuration information. If the device is a hard drive or Displays information for all of the partitions on a drive, including “invisible” partitions.
• Volume Shows information about volume file system, name, size, unused space, free space, total files, and fragmented files.
To display SCSI Bus information:
1. Open the Silverlining Lite window.
2. Click to select a device.
3. Click Info.
 
See the documentation that came with your Macintosh for details.
To display device information:
1. Open the Silverlining Lite window.
2. Click to select a device.
3. Click Info.
The following example shows drive and partition information for a Quantum Empire 1080S drive.
 
Manufacturer and Model The manufacturer and model of the drive, as reported by the drive’s firmware.
Version The revision number of the firmware on the drive.
Total Sectors The number of 512-byte blocks available on the drive.
Bytes/Sector The number of bytes in each sector. Most drives use 512-byte sectors.
Cylinders (tracks) The pair of tracks on opposite sides of the disk platter. If a hard disk contains multiple platters, a cylinder includes the pair of tracks directly above and below each other on each disk platter. On a hard disk containing four platters, each cylinder contains eight tracks.
Heads The total number of read/write heads on the drive.
Sectors The average number of sectors on each track.
Interleave The number of revolutions required to read every sector on a track. Most hard drives use a 1:1 interleave factor.
Partition Number Partitions are numbered by Silverlining Lite. The first partition is assigned number 0, the second partition is assigned number 1, and so on.
Note about “Invisible” partitions: A drive normally contains a handful of partitions that are used to store drivers, directory files, and free space. They are called “invisible” partitions because they don’t appear as mounted volumes on the desktop. Examples are “Apple (partition_map),” “Macintosh_SL (Driver),” and “Extra(Free).”
Partition Name The name that identifies the volume in Silverlining and on the desktop (for mountable partitions).
Partition Type Identifies the structure and purpose of the partition. These descriptors are designated at the time Silverlining creates the partition. See “Partitioning the Easy Way” for details. For Macintosh HFS partitions, the partition type is “Apple_HFS.”
First Block Identifies the address of the first block on the selected partition.
Block Count The total number of blocks on the partition. Each block occupies 512 bytes.
To display volume information:
1. Open the Silverlining Lite window.
2. Click to select a volume.
3. Click Info.
The following example shows information for a SyQuest cartridge volume. See the previous section for a description of the items.
 
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