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- From: jizzy@dircon.co.uk (Paul Hardacre)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: AFS crashes
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 18:37:48 GMT
- Organization: Direct Connection
- Message-ID: <1253.6674T891T2747@dircon.co.uk>
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- >>Sorry I don't have any help to offer, and unfortunately from what I have
- >>read lately I don't think there is any. What I do want to add is that I
- >>recently bought AFS, as well, but contrary to the manual and the dealers
- >>promise there is no DiskSalv support for AFS. In light of this I am
- >>unwilling to commit any of my data to a drive for which there are no
- >>methods for recovery from a failure - no matter how secure it is supposed
- >>to be.
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- >I still use it. I'm one of those paranoids who really does backup his hard
- >disk data regularly, and use a UPS to preclude power problems, so the risk
- >to me is minimal, and worth the advantages (huge speed increase, no disk
- >fragmentation). The most frequent problem by far seems to be Total Data
- >Annihilation when (floppy) writing is interrupted, so I've given up on
- >floppies.
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- >>So Fourth Level, please deliver what has been promised.
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- >I've had no luck with Email to them - only got an automated response giving
- >the excuse of staff turnover for the "delay" in answering. My guess is the
- >company is probably moribund by now - with all the bad press, AFS can't be a
- >very hot seller. (Glad I got my copy before they go under...).
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- Cheers for now!
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- Paul Hardacre
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- jizzy@dircon.co.uk
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