Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!nrl-cmf!ames!elroy!gryphon!pnet02!hrlaser From: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: FFS for floppies in 1.4 Message-ID: <7307@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 26 Sep 88 16:20:24 GMT Sender: root@gryphon.CTS.COM Organization: People-Net [pnet02], Redondo Beach, CA. Lines: 23 David Guntner: yes, FACC II does a great job "speeding up" (note the quotes there) floppies. Till you eject the floppy. Then bye-bye buffers. I use FACC II all the time too even though I have had a hard drive for a year (measly 20 Meg). And of course FACC II doesn't do a think for one's hard drive. There's another little piece of commercialware called "B.A.D." by MV Micro in Denver that reorganizes a disk (floppy or hard) in either Workbench or CLI "mode" so that it's fast every time you access it. B.A.D. has gone through a lot of evolution in the last year or so since the first demo version appeared. The first version took almost an hour to reorg a floppy. The new 3.0 version takes under 5 minutes. Version 3.1 (which MVM is holding back releasing till CBM releases 1.3) will even process an FFS'd hard drive. MVM sent me a copy to evaluate. I BADded my FFS'd Supra drive. The sucker screams now. No complaints, no real problems, though I did give MVM some suggestions on making their gadgety interface a little friendlier and more informative. Harv Laser, Sysop, The People/Link AmigaZone. Plink: CBM*HARV UUCP: {ames!elroy,}!gryphon!pnet02!hrlaser INET: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com <---open Push down while turning close tightly--->