Defrag or not ?

[mrmoonlight]

Hi i have a 1200 amiga with a 20gb hard drive ,i was wondering if i should be defraging  or running any thing in the way of maintanance ,as i do deleat a lot of mp3s and othere stuff ,i use os 3.9 and have a matrix fitted ,so if i do need to run some thing what should i use ,best wishes Brian.

[mrmoonlight]

You can't - except using diskmontools. Probably copying to another drive and then copying back is faster.

Hi thanks for your reply,so would it be ok to carry on without defraging .

[mrmoonlight]

Yes. I have never defragged an Amiga drive and don't intend to.

Hi thanks for your reply,i will carry on as i am then ,so does the Amiga just keep going by its self ,and no need to do any thing ?,have you ever added any cooling fans ?.

[mrmoonlight]

Ditto. Regarding cooling fans, only time I'd ever bugger with that is if you have an overclocked 030 or an 040/060 and/or an Indivision AGA installed. Otherwise, leave it alone unless you feel lots of heat coming through the case.

Hi thanks very much,i dont have any thing overclocked ,and there is not a lot of heat coming out of the case ,but i do use the Matrix accelerator ,and that gets a little warm ,the only problem i have with my 1200 is with the sound,the games sounds are awesome and no problems there ,but i have a lot of problems with the mp3 s and the amplifier ,after a few songs have played it freezes up ,and i have to reboot ,and the same thing happens again ,i thought she might be getting a little hot ,hence the mention of cooling fans.

[mrmoonlight]

Thanks to all for there help ,Brian xx