jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Jules Cisek) (10/11/89)
1. How good is B.A.D., the disk optimizer? I'm really getting sick of my 5 min. startup. Is this program safe? 2. I'd love to see those Amiga ads. Does anyone have a good idea when they're shown? -- Fight | // Julius A. Cisek jac423,jules |Don't Like a| \X/ ->crunch<- SUNYA, NY USA @leah.albany.edu | Be a Brave | IB...M I do think it's good... |Slave
bear@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) (10/16/89)
Well, I have used BAD succesfully and the result is a good speedup
BUT (a major but) If the program crashes at any point during
execution, the disk you're trying to optimize is toasted. This
happened to me twice in a row on a 20meg harddrive and I almost
put the BAD disk in the food-processor and mailed it back to
the company. That's my opinion and I think a number of people
would agree with me.
- Bearsneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) (10/19/89)
In Message <40536@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, bear@bu-pub.bu.edu writes: >Well, I have used BAD succesfully and the result is a good speedup >BUT (a major but) If the program crashes at any point during >execution, the disk you're trying to optimize is toasted. This I think BAD (and perhaps Amiga utility programmers in general) should take a look at the MS-Dos (I know - boo... hiss...) world's utility called "Speed Disk" from Norton Utilities. It can be stopped at anytime or even have the cpu reset with no ill effects. The operating system sucks (MS-Dos that is) but their utilities are great! Sneakers -- ___ Dan "Sneakers" Schein //// BERKS AMIGA BBS Sneakers Computing //// 80+ Megs of software & messages 2455 McKinley Ave. ___ //// 12/2400 Baud - 24 Hrs West Lawn, PA 19609 \\\\ //// 215/678-7691 \\\\//// {pyramid|rutgers|uunet}!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers