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From: lshaw@walt.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: FFS HD optimizer?
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Date: 12 Sep 90 01:53:16 GMT
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Does there exist a program (commercial, PD, shareware, whatever) that will do
a good job of optimizing my hard disk?  I figure I should be getting better
than the 250K/sec that DiskSpeed reports.

Here's my setup:
  A2000
  GVP SCSI controller
  Quantum 40 with two 20M FFS partitions
  3 megabytes RAM

I've tried BAD, but it doesn't seem to do anything.  It works great on
floppies, but on either partition of my HD it just sits there and says
"Let's get to it" after I click the "blitz" gadget.  It doesn't use any
memory, and my hard drive light doesn't flash.  All that happens is that
I can't access whatever partition it's supposed be optimizing.

Muchas gracias!!!
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"The beauty queen, clevely clad,                    Logan Shaw
 admires herself in a cigarette ad.                 lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
 Will she admit that all was in vain                ========================
 when the face in her mirror cracks like a windowpane?"
              -Elim Hall, _Things_Break_