Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!johnhlee From: johnhlee@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Vince Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: B.A.D problems? Keywords: harddisk BAD optimizer Message-ID: <16162@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 9 Aug 89 21:39:08 GMT References: <472@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: johnhlee@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Vince Lee) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 16 In article <472@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) writes: >I've heard several complaints from different postings lately about using >B.A.D. (a commercial disk optimizer) on hard drive partitions. I have a >Quantum 80S interfaced to my A1000 via a Supra interface. I haven't run B.A.D. >yet but plan to eventually. Is it possible for B.A.D. to corrupt my disk or >is the problem just "it doesn't work"? I bought it for use with my floppies >mainly but having a harddrive now I plan to use it. Please advise. In a word, DONT. A friend of mine has trashed his hard disk several times with BAD, and had to repair its directory structure by hand. He is a tech, and knows what he is talking about. Another friend has had similarly bad experiences with BAD on floppies. Although the program seems to work at first, it almost always (he says) generates subtle errors in the disk structure somewhere. B.A.D. is really BAD. >John Lindwall johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM