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From: dalka@cbnewsc.att.com (kenneth.j.dalka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Optimizer
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.131826.25654@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 30 Aug 90 13:18:26 GMT
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> 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.  

I too am looking for a disk optimizer. I was thinking of getting BAD but
I would like to hear other peoples experiences with these things before
I have it chew on my disk. Is there any hard disk/controller dependencies
that I have to worry about? I have a Xetec hard disk controller and disk.
actually, I think they put a segate in the package. I have a 49 meg hard
disk with a boot partition that Xetec requires and a dh0: partition.
I have 3 meg of total memory.
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