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From: pegram@uvm-gen.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Defragmenter for ST harddisks
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Date: 25 Sep 90 18:05:34 GMT
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From article <1370@eastman.UUCP>, by nelson@cygnus.Kodak.COM (Bruce D. Nelson):
> Hard Drive Turbo Kit from Michtron is an execellent de-fragger. It also
> has a tar-like backup system and disk cache.
 
 
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> Bruce Nelson                            | Phone: (716) 726-7890
> Rochester Distributed Computer Services | Internet: nelson@cygnus.kodak.COM
> Eastman Kodak Company                   |
> Rochester, NY 14653-5219                | Standard disclaimers apply

Yes, but...... it has several nasty bugs 8-(.  If you back up with it,
*DO NOT HAVE AN ALTERNATE FILE SELECTOR IN USE*, or your backup is as
good as empty disks.  Bug # 2 (personal experience this one, the other
was from a review) *DO NOT USE THE "write history to disk" (or
something like that) AFTER YOU HAVE DEFRAGGED YOUR PARTITION*.  You'll
trash the partition.  You should *only* defrag another partition or
reboot after defragging a partition.  Bug #3, it does not support
large partitions, including the TOS 1.4 supported 32Meg partitions
(same 1K clusters as always 8-).  This is for my version dating from
summer '89.  I called to ask when these and other bugs would be fixed,
and haven't heard anything since.  Sigh, it's *so close* to being
great.  I still like it, and use it on my smaller partitions, but be
aware of the bugs.

Bob Pegram

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