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From: bworrell@cmcvx1.claremont.edu (worrell, brandon lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Optimizer
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Date: 29 Aug 90 22:27:37 GMT
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In article <869@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>, parker@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (James Parker) writes...
> 
>Does anyone know if a good optimizer exists in the public domain???
> 
>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?
> 

I have used BAD on my Quantum 105 hard disk quite a bit.  I also have 3 megs
in my A500.  I have never had a problem with memory restraints once it 
starts, it should always tell you if you have enough memory before it
starts optimizing.  I have no problem optimizing my largest (72Meg)
partition as long as nothing else is running.  Note that the memory
requirements have to do with the size of the partition that you want to
optimize, not how large your hard disk is.  BAD does a pretty good job,
but it does take a LONG time to do large partitions.

I would really like to see some other de-fragmentors come out for the Amiga.
Specifically, one that will do it as you write to the disk.....
I would also like to see one that will automatically de-fragment at specific
time intervals.  (Or if there is a way to easily find out how badly fragmented
your disk really is.

--Brandon Worrell
bworrell@cmcvx1.claremont.edu