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From: carmi@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Aviram Carmi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: DiskExpress II - first impressions
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Date: 26 Dec 89 21:53:40 GMT
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In article <1989Dec24.200013.3435@chinet.chi.il.us> magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman) writes:
>I've been running DE II for 4 days now and have had numerous crashes on what
>was a fairly stable system....
>
>What I'm doing, until they release a bug fix, is remove DE II and reinstall it
>every few days ONLY to do a manual optimization and then remove it again.  I 
>lose the benifit of it's monitoring and customized optimization.  I still prefer
>it to the original DiskExpress which required booting from a seperate volume.
>
>ah....life...:-(

I have also experianced numerous crashes, even with the machine idling.
i.e. no programs running or program running but not doing a thing for
couple of minutes and than suddenly the machine would crash.
My solution was to use the "off" radio button, uncheck auto monitoring,
and do manual optimization by checking the "on" button and optimizing.

Avi Carmi (carmi@mars.jpl.nasa.gov)