Re: AFS a piece of crap? no

Article View: comp.sys.amiga.applications

Article #14113

Back to comp.sys.amiga.applications Previous Next

#14113

From: Aaron Brand
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 00:00

32 lines
2448 bytes

Barry Shilliday (barry_s@nibelung.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: I'm tired of people flaming AFS, saying how it crashes their drives, how it's no
: faster than FFS.  The fact is it *is* a lot faster, it is practically impossible
: to invalidate and is infinitely better than FFS-DC.

: 'But it crashed my HD' people say.  Well if they RTFM and set the proper
: maxtrans rate etc, and used HDToolBox/RDPrep properly then maybe they wouldn't
: have these problems.  If you don't have a clue, stay away from AFS.  Otherwise
: use it, it's one of the most useful things available.

I have to agree with you there.
I got my copy of AFS the day after I got my A1200 with 1 GIG HD.
The reason I got AFS (Pro) was to protect my investment in such a large
hard drive.  Seeing as for the past 8-9 years I had been using an A500 with
two floppies, and 1.5M extra mem (I used to think that kicked ass, boy I was
stoopid) the route to a HD seemed alien to me so I decided to RTFM.  Did
everything they said, and BOO YAA it worked.  With the exception of PM3.
But that worked when I actually put the max trans rate to what they suggested
in the manual.  I have had my A1200 since End of October/Begining of November
and never once have I had problems with AFS.  It worked like all the reviews
said, even during the power cut we had 3 weeks ago when I was copying some
files with DOpus5.  I know some of you guys may be impatient to get the baby
running but do read the manual.

Aaron
-oOo-

ObPraise:
I love the amiga community, post a problem one day, get various replies both
by email and news within 24 hrs.  Someone always has been on the same
situation and knows what to do.  Long live the AMIGA!!.

Technical Details

Message-ID: <4mt5us$2h5@mercury.kingston.ac.uk>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References: <673.6703T767T297@nibelung.demon.co.uk>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f6f0c,a0f124427a285708
X-Google-Attributes: gidf6f0c,public
X-Google-Thread: 11015b,a0f124427a285708
X-Google-Attributes: gid11015b,public
X-Google-Thread: 106ac0,a0f124427a285708
X-Google-Attributes: gid106ac0,public
From: k923510@kingston.ac.uk (Aaron Brand)
Subject: Re: AFS a piece of crap? no
Date: 1996/05/09
Message-ID: <4mt5us$2h5@mercury.kingston.ac.uk>
X-Deja-AN: 153929527
references: <673.6703T767T297@nibelung.demon.co.uk>
followup-to: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc,demon.ip.support.amiga
organization: Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames.
newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc,demon.ip.support.amiga

Reply to Parent Message