hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser) (09/26/88)
David Guntner: yes, FACC II does a great job "speeding up" (note the
quotes there) floppies. Till you eject the floppy. Then bye-bye buffers.
I use FACC II all the time too even though I have had a hard drive for
a year (measly 20 Meg). And of course FACC II doesn't do a think for
one's hard drive.
There's another little piece of commercialware called "B.A.D." by MV Micro
in Denver that reorganizes a disk (floppy or hard) in either Workbench
or CLI "mode" so that it's fast every time you access it. B.A.D. has
gone through a lot of evolution in the last year or so since the first
demo version appeared. The first version took almost an hour to reorg
a floppy. The new 3.0 version takes under 5 minutes. Version 3.1 (which
MVM is holding back releasing till CBM releases 1.3) will even process
an FFS'd hard drive. MVM sent me a copy to evaluate. I BADded my FFS'd
Supra drive. The sucker screams now.
No complaints, no real problems, though I did give MVM some suggestions on
making their gadgety interface a little friendlier and more informative.
Harv Laser, Sysop, The People/Link AmigaZone. Plink: CBM*HARV
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