Semulov 1.0
Reviewed by Harry {doc} Babad
Developer: Kevin Wojniak Support: None listed on web page, but feedback link provided in the application. http://www.kaintek.com/?page_id=37 Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later, universal binary. Released: November 19, 2006 Audience: Folks with mounted external drives that range from iPods to pen drives. Strengths: It works, mostly. Weaknesses: Check the limitations described below. The software was tested on a 1 GHz dual processor PowerPC G4 Macintosh with 2 GB DDR SDRAM running under OS X 10.4.8. Product and company names and logos in this review may be registered trademarks of their respective companies. Disclaimer: When briefly reviewing share-freeware I will often use the developer’s product, functions and features descriptions. All other comments are strictly my own and based on testing. |
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Publisher’s Summary
“Semulov lists all mounted volumes in your menubar, categorized by type. Clicking on a volume menu will unmount/eject that volume. Semulov supports Growl unmount and mount notifications.”
Working With
Installing this application is simple. Open its .dmg, and drag it you’re your applications folder. Click on it and it’s ready to use. I put it on my startup at start up items list.
The software works but with a number of limitations.
First, the software worked flawlessly on my pen (super) drives, and iPod shuffle.
Second, if you have additional internal drives, it may not
always unmount/eject them. This is at odds with Apples Disk Utility that always
works.
Third, I’ve not been able to get it to unmount individual sub-volumes on a partitioned LaCie drive that I use for backup. With Apples Disk Utility all three partitions are ejected at once and each individual partition unmounted one at a time. When using another external drive that was partitioned into two parts, on half would be unmounted, the other not. Once again the Apple utility worked.
Such problems were also identified by
ELEGRAPHY in a MacUpdate Review “My only problem is that it cannot eject my partitioned external hard drive. Semulov keep giving error messages that it failed the ejection. I don't know if that failure has something to do with LaCie's hard drive, or just huge volumes. Other than that, it does what it says.”
Conclusions
Try it; if it works for you, going to the menu bar is a shorter trip than opening up Disk Utility. This of course requires that you start it up at startup, but you know that. [Preferences > Accounts > You > Log In Items] The price is right — a few minutes of your time.
