B.A.D. bad?
Steven,
I just ran B.A.D. over my Workbench: partition (5 Meg) yesterday, and
it worked just fine. I have no idea why it wouldn't work for you. At
least you had the good sense to do a full backup before you ran the
optimizer. I'm currently backing up my Usr: partition (33 Meg), in
preparation to run B.A.D. over it. We'll see how it likes the larger
partition. BTW, how much memory do you have? I know B.A.D. is pretty
memory hungry, that might be a problem.
People have noted problems with *all* of the disk optimizers. I
don't know why they seem to be so fragile on the Amiga. I haven't heard
that this sort of program has these problems on PClones. As for whether or
not these programs are worthwhile, that's up to you. A full backup and
restore will defragment your disk, but it won't shuffle the directory
structures around, to speed up file access time. With a fast hard drive
and SCSI host adaptor, that may not be much of a consideration, however.
If you use floppies a lot, you will appreciate a program like B.A.D.,
though; at least, I do. B.A.D. also made quite a noticeable difference on
my old Rodime RO650 (The Harddrive From Hell!), which is a *very* slow
device (85ms access time). So for me, it's a reasonable program.
Just my $0.05 worth. (Inflation, don't'cha know…)
–dds (dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM)
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