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From: mcc@moscom.UUCP (Mike Corbett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Looking for memory defragmentation utility.
Keywords: Memory, Utility
Message-ID: <2381@moscom.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 90 18:12:58 GMT
References: <1990Nov1.195107.26149@athena.mit.edu> <2375@moscom.UUCP> <1990Nov14.214230.1087@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Reply-To: mcc@moscom.UUCP (Mike Corbett)
Organization: Moscom Corp., E. Rochester, NY
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In article <1990Nov14.214230.1087@rodan.acs.syr.edu> bwdavies@rodan.acs.syr.edu writes:
>In article <2375@moscom.UUCP> mcc@moscom.UUCP I write:
>>
>>I have recently received my copy of Quarterback Tools v1.2a from Central Coast
>>Software and have run it on my 2 meg A1000 with the Sprit Technology HDA-506 
>>doesn't fail it _will_ take quite some time to complete.  My 20meg partition
>>took about 30 minutes using the fast option.
>
>You're kidding, right?  I have an H-P '286 machine at work with an 80 Meg
>hard drive, and using PC Tools, it takes no more than 10 minutes to 
>optimize the whole thing (if I don't have it clear the empty blocks).
>

No, I'm not kidding.  In all fairness my HD is a slow one (~60ms).  When defrag
is run on a 20meg SCSI HD it only took about 10 minutes.

It is worth mentioning that the Amiga uses a substantially different file
system than the IBM types do.  That fact _may_ be a significant factor in the
time it takes to do the defragmentation.  Also the products on those (yech)
machines have been around and are quite mature.  This is the first attempt by
Central Coast Software at this type of tool.  Quarterback Tools shows the
same teething pains that Norton and PCTools went through when they were new.

CCS has shown that they are a good company, dedicated to supporting the Amiga
and that given the chance they will fix the problems.  Their upgrade policies
have always been reasonable.  I do plan to stay with Quarterback as my backup
program and QBTools as my main disk fix-it utility.


Mike

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