muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au (Murray Chapman) (03/27/91)
Hi there I recently tried to run B.A.D. (version 3.15, I beleive) on my 20Mb hard drive. It took about an hour, after which the drive would not validate, and any attempt to write on it caused a guru..... Has anyone out there got B.A.D to work on a HD??? What other disk optimizers are out there for HD's??? Murray Chapman
cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) (03/27/91)
In article <447@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au writes: >Hi there > >I recently tried to run B.A.D. (version 3.15, I beleive) on my 20Mb hard drive. >It took about an hour, after which the drive would not validate, and any attempt >to write on it caused a guru..... > >Has anyone out there got B.A.D to work on a HD??? What other disk optimizers are >out there for HD's??? > > Murray Chapman After my experience with this program I vowed never to use it again, as well as warning other Amiga users about it. The one to use for optimizing is Quarterback Tools, it performs miracles to Fragmented Hard Disks. The latest version is 1.3d and support from Central Coast Software is excellent. matt.
<DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> (03/27/91)
In article <1991Mar27.023315.26560@marlin.jcu.edu.au>, cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) says: >After my experience with this program I vowed never to use it again, as >well as warning other Amiga users about it. >The one to use for optimizing is Quarterback Tools, it performs miracles >to Fragmented Hard Disks. The latest version is 1.3d and support from >Central Coast Software is excellent. QB Tools has to be the most notoriously buggy program ever released for the Amiga. So why don't you warn everyone not to buy QB Tools like you do BAD? Just curious... -- Dan Babcock
fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (03/27/91)
B.A.D. works just fine on my Tiny-Tiger HD (QB Tools does *NOT*), but after
it's done, I do have to reboot, as it puts another HD icon onscreen. No big
deal...
--Rick Wrigley
fhwri@conncoll.bitnet
~~~second-hand smoke is THEFT~~~algoa@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Gregory Bowers) (03/28/91)
DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu writes: >QB Tools has to be the most notoriously buggy program ever released for >the Amiga. So why don't you warn everyone not to buy QB Tools like you >do BAD? Just curious... >-- Dan Babcock QB Tools (newest should be v1.3e I think) has worked fine until the other day when it trashed my HD. One of the sectors was so bad not even SupraFormat could deal with it (Drive just locked up). So I don't know if QBTools was the culprit or not. Otherwise it and BAD seem to work OK, except BAD v3.15 which didn't recognise my HD as being valid (if that isn't a bug, then neither is a cockroach). By the way, I did have a full backup of the HD, and I suggest you do to before using ANY optimizer. Amiga is die beste! 'n IBM is 'n rekenaar? Die Mac is net 'n vrot appel! algoa@eecs.cs.pdx.edu Portland TrailBlazers now 50-18 and KICKING ASS!
cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) (03/28/91)
In article <91086.095310DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu writes: >In article <1991Mar27.023315.26560@marlin.jcu.edu.au>, cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au >(Matthew W Crowd) says: > > >>After my experience with this program I vowed never to use it again, as >>well as warning other Amiga users about it. > >>The one to use for optimizing is Quarterback Tools, it performs miracles >>to Fragmented Hard Disks. The latest version is 1.3d and support from >>Central Coast Software is excellent. > >QB Tools has to be the most notoriously buggy program ever released for >the Amiga. So why don't you warn everyone not to buy QB Tools like you >do BAD? Just curious... > >-- Dan Babcock When i bought QBTools ages ago it was the buggiest program I had ever used, I just upgraded my version to 1.3d and worked fine even on an old developers version of 2.0. on my 50meg quantum. I suppose one of the nicest things about QBTools is the ability to undelete files. matt.
plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky) (03/28/91)
muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au (Murray Chapman) writes: > I recently tried to run B.A.D. (version 3.15, I beleive) on my 20Mb > hard drive. It took about an hour, after which the drive would not > validate, and any attemp o write on it caused a guru..... > > Has anyone out there got B.A.D to work on a HD??? What other disk > optimizers ar ut there for HD's??? As it happens, the other night I received my B.A.D. upgrade from v3.11 to v4.13. I tried it on my hard drive (er, _after_ making a full backup and testing B.A.D. with a few floppies), and it worked just fine. While I didn't time it's operation, it didn't seem to take more than 30-40 minutes to do the job on my 3/4 full, 40 meg Quantum. The earlier revision worked for me, too, but it seemed to take much longer. (Memory's a bit foggy there; it's been many months since I last used v3.11.) I recall there being some reported problems with v3.11 working properly with partition sizes of an odd number of blocks. My single partition was (and is) even-sized, so that was never an issue with my setup. According to the author, the partition size problem has been corrected with the latest revision. The debate over B.A.D.'s goodness (ugh!) seems to rear its head here every so often. Many (most?) seem to feel that it does more harm than good. Maybe I'm just lucky; it's never trashed a disk (hard or floppy) on me. Now, being a paranoid soul, I'm religious with backups before even _thinking_ of turning utilities like these loose on my data. But everyone do that? Specifics, humble as they may be: A2000HD, rev 6.2, 68010, 5M RAM, stock A2091/Quantum P40S with a single partition, B.A.D. v3.11/v4.13. No problems. WRT other defragmentation tools, everyone's talking about Quarterback Tools now. I haven't tried it, but if it's as good as Quarterback itself, then I'm sure it's fine. Owners of early-rev B.A.D. software should contact M.V. Micro about upgrading, 303-467-1718. No, I don't have anything to do with M.V. Micro other than being a customer. > Murray Chapman /* Rick Plavnicky ...!sun!cup.portal.com!plav -or- plav@cup.portal.com */
lynx@amiglynx.UUCP (Dario Fernando) (04/01/91)
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