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Title: Looking for PFS3
Post by: McVenco on March 14, 2007, 11:08:30 AM

Hi all,

I've been trying SFS for a while on my A1200, but I find it a b*tch to install, and it still does not want to let me use my 4.3GB harddrive beyond the 4GB border. I made a few partitions, varying in size from 150MB to 2.5GB, but if the total of those partitions exceeds 4GB, it won't recognise the last partition.

To avoid this trouble on my A4000 with it's new 40GB drive, I want to use PFS3 with it.
So if anyone has a spare copy, or knows where to get it, please let me know. No Ebay auctions please.

Thanks,
McVenco

Title: Re: Looking for PFS3
Post by: orange on March 14, 2007, 11:19:06 AM

what about using google?
softhut (http://www.softhut.com/pfs3.html)

Title: Re: Looking for PFS3
Post by: alexh on March 14, 2007, 11:44:24 AM

SFS relatively painless to install. I've done it 10's of times myself on mine and other peoples systems.

However SFS is not the only thing which affects the 4Gig limit.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~hjohn/SFS/drives.htm

You need to install a new scsi.device which supports larger LBA commands.

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/check4gb

If you dont have this installed, you'll need to get scsi.device v43.24

http://os.amigaworld.de/index.php?lang=en&page=37

You should always keep your boot partition below the 4Gig limit.

Title: Re: Looking for PFS3
Post by: McVenco on March 14, 2007, 12:16:50 PM

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what about using google?
softhut (http://www.softhut.com/pfs3.html)

$60? That sounds more like ms-windows software prices to me. I thought PFS has since long been discontinued....

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alexh wrote:

If you dont have this installed, you'll need to get scsi.device v43.24

I tried that newer scsi.device before, but it always gave me some recoverable error, complaining about having exceeded some expiration date (iirc). Strange thing is that I didn't have a functioning clock in my A1200, so why would it say that?
Anyway, therefore it wouldn't load the device, giving me the same problem again.

Title: Re: Looking for PFS3
Post by: Piru on March 14, 2007, 12:31:32 PM

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I tried that newer scsi.device before, but it always gave me some recoverable error, complaining about having exceeded some expiration date (iirc). Strange thing is that I didn't have a functioning clock in my A1200, so why would it say that?
Anyway, therefore it wouldn't load the device, giving me the same problem again.

patchstrip (http://www.aminet.net/package/util/sys/patchstrip)

Title: Re: Looking for PFS3
Post by: McVenco on March 14, 2007, 01:04:55 PM

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Piru wrote:

patchstrip (http://www.aminet.net/package/util/sys/patchstrip)

Tried/used that as well, to no avail. Maybe I'm just doing a lot of things the wrong way. (I should be more patient I presume).

So I guess that PFS needs to work with the newer scsi.device as well?

Title: Re: Looking for PFS3
Post by: Piru on March 14, 2007, 01:12:11 PM

Yes, you need a newer scsi.device, be it from newer AOS, IDEFix or scsi43.

Title: Re: Looking for PFS3
Post by: krize on March 14, 2007, 01:21:55 PM

Why not just try SFS again, and tell us where it stops ?!

It shoulnt be to hard :)

Title: Re: Looking for PFS3
Post by: alexh on March 14, 2007, 01:22:17 PM

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/IDEfix97