spierce@pnet01.cts.com (Stuart Pierce) (12/07/88)
I would appreciate any comments from those of you who have tried the latest
commercial release of B.A.D. and/or Disk Mechanic. I don't have a hard disk
yet, and I would like something to speed up my floppies, particularly DIR type
accesses. B.A.D. is quite a bit less expensive than Disk Mechanic, but I want
whichever one works the best. Any suggestions?
Stuart Piercespace@sns.UUCP (Lars Soltau) (12/09/88)
In article <3624@crash.cts.com> spierce@pnet01.cts.com (Stuart Pierce) writes: >I would appreciate any comments from those of you who have tried the latest >commercial release of B.A.D. and/or Disk Mechanic. I don't have a hard disk >yet, and I would like something to speed up my floppies, particularly DIR type >accesses. B.A.D. is quite a bit less expensive than Disk Mechanic, but I want >whichever one works the best. Any suggestions? > Stuart Pierce I would very much like to have a HD optimizer. Is there any such thing? Is it possible at all? I guess you could make real $$$ with this. Hey, those PC people have something we don't. We can't tolerate this! :-) -- Lars Soltau UUCP: ...uunet!unido!sns!space BIX: -- no bucks -- Here's looking at you, kid! -- the Medusa
Dickson@pco-multics.hbi.honeywell.com (Paul Dickson) (12/18/88)
Why would anyone want to do a PC disk optimize on a multitasking
machine. The two tend to be mutually exclusive. On a multitasking
machine you would prefer to have the records scattered about on the
disk. While on a PC, you want records that belong to a file gathered as
close together as possible. My startup-sequence would run much faster
if the records were more scattered, it would cut down on some of the
disk thrashing with multiple tasks running.
-Paul Dickson
Dickson%pco @ BCO-Multics.HBI.Honeywell.COM