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From: landay@cory.Berkeley.EDU (James A. Landay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard drive defragger
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Date: 8 Sep 89 01:15:26 GMT
References: <8909052223.AA16894@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <685@opal.tubopal.UUCP> <1604@laura.UUCP>
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In article <1604@laura.UUCP> klute@trillian.irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) writes:
>In article <685@opal.tubopal.UUCP> alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera) writes:
>>  Try REORG/DL_II by Simon Poole (PD). Seems to work really great.
>
>I also noticed problems with DLII when de-erasing files on a
>harddisk. Often the directory gets disturbed: Several file
>entries are duplicated, others are missing. - The only thing I
>use DLII for is *looking* at disk sectors (but better not try
>to *write* to them).
>
>  Rainer Klute           ----    klute@trillian.irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
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I had the same problem as Rainer.  I would stay away from that program
unless you want to lose lots of data.  If you do use it, BACK UP FIRST.





James

    

James A. Landay

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