Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!canterbury.ac.nz!chem194 From: chem194@canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis, programmer at large, chemistry department) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: QuarterBack Tools - any info on it? Message-ID: <1990Nov23.172323.9970@canterbury.ac.nz> Date: 23 Nov 90 04:34:26 GMT References: <36649@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Lines: 35 In article , paul@wa1omm.UUCP (Paul MacDonald) writes: >>In article <36649@nigel.ee.udel.edu> fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes: >>Re; QBTools >> >>I bought it, and took it back the same day. B.A.D. does just fine on my >>Tiny-Tiger HD, while QBTools told me (1) that my FFS HD was the old file >>system (B.A.D. recognises it as FFS) and (2) that EVERY file on my HD was >>corrupted. Hmph, I said, and took it back. Got my cash refund, too. > > I believe most (if not all) problems were corrected with V1.2a. Seems not - a local dealer just got in QBtools 1.2a and I went down to have a look at it. He admitted that when he'd tried to use the optimise option on their 2500 (with a 2090a and a scsi hd) it'd died, and offered to let me try it on my machine, with the option to return it if it didn't work (the main thing I want qbtools for is optimising the hd - don't often have problems with corrupted drives). Anyway, tried it on my own 2500 (again a 2090a controller but an st506 drive) and got the same thing - optimisation starts, but then qbtools corrupts the screen and dies. This is irrespective of being on the 68000 or 030, and regardless of what I have in my startup-sequence ( believe me - tried, I _really_ want to optimise my hd :-( ). In the end I had to give up and returned it - I gather it just doesn't like 2090s ... very odd indeed (like they're a pretty common controller, you'd have thought central coast would have tested it) ----------------------------------------------------------- | o John Davis - CHEM194@canterbury.ac.nz o | | o (Depart)mental Programmer,Chemistry Department o | | o University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand o | | o o | | o co-sysop AmigaINFO BBS,1200/2400 baud CCITT, o | | o 24 hours a day, ph NZ +3-3371-531 o |