nelson@udel.EDU (Mark Nelson) (06/13/89)
Based on the review of hard drive backup programs that appeared in Amiga Transactor recently, I bought Express Copy. I'm fairly happy with it. It is much faster than MrBackup, which I was using. I've been torture testing, and it seems almost bullet-proof: I was able to crash it by fiddling with its priority gadget while doing a backup. However, it doesn't like my df1:. I have a 1000, so this is an external drive. It's stock Commodore, bought with my Amiga (October 1986). If I try to do a backup to it with Express Copy with verify, I consistently get a verification failure with it. I've never noticed any problems with the drive doing anything else--the only time I've ever had a corrupted floppy is when I pressed the eject button before the in-use light went out. So, has anyone else seen a problem like this? Is it possible that the drive is on its last legs, but no one but express copy can detect it? Are there any floppy drive torture tests that I could try? In case it matters, my set-up is: Amiga 1000 w/ 512k Spirit board w/ 1.5m (100ns) and clock External 3.5" floppy C-Ltd SCSI controller w/ 24m drive (I forget the brand) AmigaDOS 1.3; SCSIdos 3.0 Adcom GFP-555 + GFA-535 + Revox Piccolo/Bass for sound output :-) Mark Nelson ...!rutgers!udel!nelson or nelson@udel.edu This function is occasionally useful as an argument to other functions that require functions as arguments. -- Guy Steele