Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!amiux!holgerl From: holgerl@amiux.UUCP (Holger Lubitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Need help with FastDiskII problem Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 91 05:11:47 GMT References: <1991Apr16.134655.1565@dayton.saic.com> Organization: Teuwag Lines: 22 In article <1991Apr16.134655.1565@dayton.saic.com> ake@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) writes: >Anyone into >seeing what might be wrong with FastDiskII? According to the autor of this version (Oliver Wagner), FastDiskII is *absolutely hopelessly* messed up due to bugs in the global optimizer of Lattice C. He compiled it with size optimization for release, and didn't test *this* version thoroughly, though he did with the previous ones (which weren't compiled with size optimizing and thus didn't show the bug). There is another successor to FastDisk 1.5 (upon which FastDiskII is based), called FastDisk 1.8. It is from the original author and doesn't contain such a nice intuition interface, but is bugfree and optimizes somewhat better. IMHO even better than B.A.D. Don't know at all if this ever appeared on the fish disks, though. Best regards, Holger -- Holger Lubitz, Kl. Drakenburger Str. 24, D-W-3070 Nienburg/Weser