defrag drag

[GÜR]

hello.


i installed Diskeeper disk defrag utility under XP pro.

i have a chain of 4 9-gig SCSI's running under an Adaptek UW2940 controller.

the SCSI's are generally pretty stable, no problems.

Often, when I try to de-frag a SCSI with DK, the SCSI drive just starts
"clicking" like a machine gun, constantly (like the noise that happens when
SCSI's are writing a large file)

this just stays on and on and eventually the computer locks up.

is this a problem that XP can be configured to deal with, or is it an
independant SCSI issue?

thanks for any help...

Guur

 

[Guest]

From what i remember on scsi drives they dont get fragmented,however t
run a defrag utility,go to run,type:cmd in cmd typeefrag E
E: can be any drive or volume.

 

[GÜR]

andrew,

why would typing it in from the cmd prompt do anything different? if DK is
the default defrag app, it will still engage the same thing, no?

 

[Greg Hayes/Raxco Software]

The FATx and NTFS file systems fragment - regardless of underlying disk
technology (fragmentation of the file system is independent of hardware).

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

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