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From: cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: FFS HD optimizer?
Message-ID: <42340@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 90 18:33:35 GMT
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lshaw@walt.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw) writes:
< 
< 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.
< 
< 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.

I've seen quite a few of these type of postings lately, as well as some
calling for fsck for the Amiga.  I'm curious as to anyone's experience
with Quarterback Tools, which claims to have both.  The ads in .info,
AmigaWorld and Amazing/Amiga say that it can optimize any hard disk,
FFS or OFS, and that it can repair any hard disk IN PLACE.  It also has
features for undeleting files and some other fine tuning.  I'm not sure
if it is a single program with many options, or multiple utilities
bundled together.

So, has anyone used these tools, or are they just advertising vaporware?

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