Now calm down Sheldon! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Play nice with others. If you know the answers, then good for you. Direct that energy at helping the OP. 🤦🏻‍♂️

RetroPassion is not involved with EAB's operation nor does he own it.

Not always the case. It depends how good your SCSI setup and what you are using.

What are you talking about here? MaxTransfer or Buffers?
How do you measure the goodness of a SCSI setup? Grades of termination?

Ask Toni Willen/Hyperion Why.

Toni has written about this many times and it's even in the readme and changelogs.... which is why I asked, as you appeared to have some different information.

All I know when using FFS, you are good. Using PFS3 then it can get complicated.

Ah, ok, so you don't really know.

The main difference is that PFS3AIO adjusts its buffers dynamically on its own (up to 600?), while FFS doesn't. The (only?) drawback of buffers is that they eat RAM of course, from what I recall a PFS3AIO buffer is 1024 bytes, while FFS uses 512 bytes. PFS3AIO has mechanisms that try to ensure it doesn't eat up all system RAM, while FFS happily gobble it all away (unless something has changed with v46/v47). If HDToolBox sets Buffers to 30 (default for old hdtoolbox), PFS3AIO will automatically adjust that to 150 already.

Asking Hyperion about anything is a waste of energy.

I'm now suspecting dodgy cartridges. I partitioned a 2GB cartridge with 4 partitions. All set to use PDS03. Set max transfer as per my earlier post and buffers set to 80. Took ages to reboot - had error messages along the lines of not being able to access after trying TD64 (or words to that effect).

First partion (350MB) appears as uninitialized (as expected); 2nd partition (350MB) showed as unreadable; and partitions 3 & 4 unitialized. Partitions 3 & 4 I can quick format; Partion 1 it runs into problems and fails; havent tried the 2nd partition.

Weed

Have you tried FFS? I have had numerous issues with PFS3 (Didn’t use PDS3), which would get resolved if I stuck to the defaults of each partition.

I used DOSType 50465303 for PFS3. On both 19.2 and 20.0 BETA.

Yep 1fe00 can help.

… with IDE.

Also try Buffers = 80. I think I was okay at 100. But anything over and that too was problematic.

How? Why?