Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!ucsd!mvb.saic.com!dayton.saic.com!ake From: ake@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Need help with FastDiskII problem Message-ID: <1991Apr17.184138.1569@dayton.saic.com> Date: 17 Apr 91 22:41:37 GMT References: <1991Apr16.134655.1565@dayton.saic.com> Organization: Science Applications Intl. Corp., Dayton, Ohio Lines: 27 In article , stolp@dost.informatik.uni-kl.de (Torsten Stolpmann (PA Buhler)) writes: > FastDiskII (written by Oliver Wagner) was based on FastDisk1.5 (written by me) > and contains some serious bugs, which were not present in Version 1.5. > > PLEASE DO NOT USE FASTDISKII, since it isn't of much use. > > Oliver sent FastDiskII to Fred Fish without giving me a chance to authorize or > check it, thus spoiling my reputation as a programmer. > > Since Version 1.5 (which was quite stable, the only reported bugs were the > missing ability to process empty files and some strange behaviour with incon- > sistent disks), there was another Release Version (1.8) which has lots of im- > provements (ability to use all kind of devices ie. FF0:, RAD:, Harddisks etc., > FastMem-Support, better performance and more) which I'm willing to upload to > abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov or post to comp.binaries.amiga, if such interest > exists. Please upload to abcfd20! Earle _____________________________________________________________________________ ____ ____ ___ Earle Ake /___ /___/ / / Science Applications International Corporation ____// / / /__ Dayton, Ohio ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet: ake@dayton.saic.com uucp: dayvb!ake SPAN: 28284::ake