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From: ake@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: A.AUF Re: Need help with FastDiskII pr
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.155008.1585@dayton.saic.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 19:50:08 GMT
References: <9104221938.93.8926@LINK-ESW>
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Organization: Science Applications Intl. Corp., Dayton, Ohio
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In article <9104221938.93.8926@LINK-ESW>, o.wagner@link-esw.zer.sub.org writes:
> 
>   
> I'm the guy who hacked up the original "FASTDISK 1.5" (written by
> Thorsten Stolpmann) with the nifty Intuition interface -- called
> FastDiskII.
> 
> Although Fastdisk 1.5 worked properly, FastDiskII won't. I've done
> some testing with my compile-time version, found it working all
> right, did a recompile using GO (the global deformizer) and released
> this version - WITHOUT testing. Wrong, as I know by now.
> 
> A little hint: FORGET FASTDISK II. Forget it forever; it's totally
> messed up. I don't have the source code, and even if I had, I
> wouldn't change anything more.
> 
> There is a improved (!) version of Fastdisk 1.5 done by the original
> author, called FastDisk 1.8, which *WORKS*, and works even better.
> Use this, or look for some other optimizer which correctly works with
> FFS disks (Fastdisk 1.8 won't).

	Can anyone who has the newer FastDisk please FTP it to ab20?
Thanks!


Earle
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