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From: pegram@uvm-gen.UUCP (pegram r)
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Subject: Re: Looking for a Disk De-Fragger....
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Date: 29 May 90 19:05:02 GMT
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From article <9880@chaph.usc.edu>, by baffoni@alcor.usc.edu (Juxtaposer):
 
>     Does anyone out there have a good PD Disk defragger, or utility/program
> that accomplishes the same thing?  If it makes any difference, I have a 80MB
> Quantum Pro-drive, and ICD Host adapter (I doubt that it should however).
 
>   Thanks,
 
>   Mike
> or
>   baffoni@alcor.usc.edu
>   mbaffoni@skat.usc.edu
 
>   "Remember, Fencing is a dangerous sport.  But then, so is walking down the 
>      street..."  - a man who has fenced longer than I've been alive...:)

I have heard vague rumors of a PD defragger, but I have and use
Michtron's Hard Disk ToolKit.  It needs to be updated, as it has some bugs
that let you harm your drive (*always* quit immediately after
defragging, the program will cause the necessary reboot) and has the
usual terrible Michtron manual, but it does do a nice job of
defragging 16Meg or less partitions (*not* my new 32Meg TOS 1.4
partition 8-( ).  I haven't used the backup portion of the program, as
I read a review that said it wasn't the most secure backup program
around and because it uses the archive bit in reverse, since the programmer
claims that the old TOSes used it that way.  NeoDesk and/or TOS 1.4
correct this.  Anyone know if an update is out since last year?  It
really needs only very minor work to be world class stuff.

Bob Pegram (Internet; pegram@griffin.uvm.edu)