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From: boyd@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Defragmentation
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.221439.2486@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 91 22:14:39 GMT
References: <1991Feb5.161838@ncsuvx.enet.dec.com>
Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department
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In article <1991Feb5.161838@ncsuvx.enet.dec.com>, twmanino@eos.ncsu.edu writes:
>Hi all,
>
>Does anyone know of a good hard drive defragmentation utility? 
>I have an ICD host adapter, and TOS 1.4 in my machine.
>Would be interested in pd/shareware/commercial - whatever will work
>with this configuration (I have heard of some that are specific to
>TOS versions, etc).  I've checked atari.archive, but I can't see anything
>particularly obvious.  If there is one there, that would be great, too.
>
>Thanks,
>Tony
>twmanino@eos.ncsu.edu

This is both an answer and a question.  First, Michtron makes (made?) a 
utility called TuneUp, which works fine on normal GEM partitions of 
16mb or less.  It will not work on BGM partitions or ones > 16mb.  Thus,
if your partitions are all of less than 16mb, it would be a good one to 
get (I believe it was sold under the name Turbo HD kit, and includes a 
disk cache program also).  

Now the question:  Is there a defragger that works with TOS 1.4's bigger 
partitions?  You can go up to 32 megs!

Oh, by the way.  I have a buddy with TOS 1.4, who brought his hard disk 
(all the way from texas) and hooked it up to mine on my Mega2.  Since I 
have TOS 1.2 (which I am going to correct!), I could not read half of his
partitions.  Just something to keep in mine if you have 1.4 and ever intend 
to hook up to something else.  I am going to keep my partitions at 16mb, so 
I do not have to worry about some program destroying my stuff because it 
could not handle the new 1.4 partition limit!!
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