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In article <Sep.14.02.22.53.1988.14264@paul.rutgers.edu>, halldors@paul.rutgers.edu (Magnus M Halldorsson) writes:
> 
>   Somehow as it's been used more, it has become slower, and slower,
> and ..... It's now to the point that booting up takes 2 min! (approx).
> It's slower than a floppy drive! It's miserable, and I rather now
> spend my time on a 80286 TTY than my once beloved Mac.
>   Fragmentation sounds like a likely cause, but perhaps there is some
> typical intrinsic problem with this hard disk.
>   Questions:
>    1) Should I reformat it? (It'll take forever to backup) Low-level
> format?
>    2) Any disk utilities (de-fragmentizers,diagnosing tools) out there
> that I should get?
>    3) Anything else I could do? (How much could I get for it, if I buy
> a Jasmine instead....?)
> I appreciate any advice on this,
> Magnus

Magnus, If you want to keep the HD20 and just make it SCSI, PCPC, makers
of MacBottoms is selling a SCSI upgrade for the HD20. That should make
a difference in the peformance. If you decide to just get a new SCSI drive
Jasmine in my opinion is an excellent choice. And I currrently recommend
Mass Micro 45meg removable cartridge drives, 25ms access time, very speedy,
extra cartridges are about $100 and dropping in price it appears. With
extra carts, you can archive data, use it as a fast backup device for
a larger fixed HD, or just use it as an HD....

Norm Goodger
3Com
Sysop - MacInfo BBS - 415-795-8862




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