Hi All,
First, I want to thank all of you who took my questions seriously
enough to not only answer me, but, to check out my observations and to
explain why a certain filesystem is better/more stable than another. As
a few of you suggested, I will check out SFS, because it is Freeware
and, if it proves not quite what I want, I will locate PFS and buy it.
This is what I did when I sought a fax program. I first tried AFax.
When that proved just a little too hinkey, I opted for the commercial
GPFax. I am very, very satisfied with GPFax -- it does everything, and
more, that you might expect from a fax prog.
Now back to disk drives and filesystems. Has anyone bothered to use
"RD Prep"? I ask this because it actually suggests that you make a copy
of the RDB onto another disk (not another partition), as a file, so, if
something does go wrong, you can recover easier. RD Prep is not a file-
system. It is a full featured disk preparation package which can do low
level prepping as well as high level prepping. Microbotics wrote all
the versions. Even version 1.3 can be used on any version of the Amiga's
OS (1.1 through 3.5) and on any type of Amiga. In fact, I do not remem-
ber its docs saying it had any limitations with respect to the size of
the drive. It will also use any filesystem you wish. Lastly, it will
create a mountlist of the drive it preps and offers to have you have it
saved. Pretty nifty stuff. Just thought I would throw this out, seeing
so many of you seemed to have gone through disks being totally destroyed
by filesystems, that, maybe, this can prove to be a solution of sorts.
RD Prep is available on Aminet.
Julian.
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Author of "MSH Tutorial V. 3.0". Found on Aminet -- MSHTut30.lha
Julian Aronowitz. Tel.: (718) 654-1681; E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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