Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!dnlunx!martijn
From: martijn@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl (Reinalda M.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: THE BEST OF THE BEST (summary)
Keywords: THE BEST OF THE BEST (summary)
Message-ID: <2047@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl>
Date: 15 Oct 90 10:43:14 GMT
Organization: PTT Research Neher Laboratorium
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In comp.sys.amiga I wrote :

>What is the best : HD optimiser
>                   HD repair util
>                   HD backup util
>                   HD formatter
>for SCSI HD's ??????????????????

'Cause I'm getting loads of E-mails from people who are also interrested
in responses, I'll just post'em to the network so everybody can read them.

Here are the responses so far :
 

>                    HD repair util

	I personally love the program FixDisk. It is the very best that I have
seen for the amiga. Including DiskX and Sectorama. No flames just my own
opinion.

>                    HD backup util
	
	I like MrBackup and a program called ABackup. But I have not had much
experience with this area.

>                    HD optimizer

B.A.D., commercial, but I'm biased - the author is a friend of mine.
Still, there's virtually no other choices - one other commercial program
which has demonstrable bugs, and a PD one that the author admits is 
unsafe.  For something with this much damage potential I prefer something
I know is solid.  The new version was 18 months in the making (and testing)
even over the last version which itself was the culmination of quite a bit
of work.

>                   HD repair util

Disksalv, PD, David Haynie.  Available anywhere. Note that "repair" is 
not a precise term.  There are "repair" utilities, and they seem to work,
but if you get an error, even if AmigaDOS can still manage to keep things
together long enough to let you read your data off the drive and back it up,
the ONLY truly safe thing to do is to backup and reformat.  Disksalv is good
for those situations when you have lost data.

>                   HD backup util

I'm told Quarterback, commercial, though I prefer simply using an equally
large (or larger) HD and "copy dh0: dh3: all"... or a tape drive. 


>                   HD formatter

Generally the drive interface comes with it's own.  The one with the 
A-590 or A-2091 is probably the best not counting the 3000's.  Exceptionally
flexible, it will do everything for you virtually automatically (it'll read
the drive's size and such and let you partition by dragging a slider bar,
then format), but also let you look in at the details if you want and modify
or even just do everything yourself from the start.  No mountlist to deal with
either unless you want to.

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