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From: rchampe@hubcap.clemson.edu (Richard Champeaux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Optimizer
Message-ID: <10254@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 90 18:54:41 GMT
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In article <869@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> parker@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (James Parker) writes:
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>Does anyone know if a good optimizer exists in the public domain???
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>I have a 105M Quantum and I need something to optimize it.  A friend
>of mine who has B.A.D. says it takes a lot of memory to run.  Even
>though I have a 3Meg A2000, he has the same setup, but with a 40M drive,
>and says sometimes it won't optimize his hard drive due to memory
>restrictions.  He told me it was proportional to size of the hard drive,
>and I know if it wouldn't do 40Megs, it surely won't do 105M.  Is this a
>bug in the program or does it really take that much memory?

Do you have only one partition?  If so, smart partitioning would be a good
start to optimizing your drive.  Also, B.A.D. works on individual partitions,
not the entire drive.  So, if you have your drive set up into, say, 40 meg
partitions, it would require a lot less memory.  I have only a 2 meg computer
and I was able to optimize a 30 meg partition.  The only catch is that
B.A.D. requires the memory to be continuous.  So you would probably want
to cntrl-D the startup sequence before it starts fragmenting memory.  I think
I figured it out from their stated memory requirements that it would take
about 1 meg of continuous memory to optimise a 40 meg partition.  Assuming
that your 2 megs of expansion memory is on the same board, and therefore
continuous, you should have no problems optimizing 40 - 60 meg partitions.
Like I said, you should have your drive partioned anyhow, to make the
operation more efficient by shortening the directory lists.

>J Parker

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