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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Ross1 on April 18, 2007, 03:39:58 PM

Title: SFS and FFS
Post by: Ross1 on April 18, 2007, 03:39:58 PM

I found out something strange this week,
I am still having a problem with my Toaster/Flyer system and while doing some digging in the FRAQ on the Newtek site I found a statement that The Toaster software dosent like to run under SFS formated drives and that you need to stay with FFS? Has anyone else had an issue with this and is there a way around this?

Title: Re: SFS and FFS
Post by: itix on April 18, 2007, 04:34:31 PM

Maybe it has something to do with packets where SFS is not fully backwards compatible.

Title: Re: SFS and FFS
Post by: Ross1 on April 18, 2007, 04:43:17 PM

I wonder if upgrading to the most recent SFS would fix this? Also dose a person have to reformat the drives when updating SFS or is it just a matter of updating the SFS files its self?

Title: Re: SFS and FFS
Post by: itix on April 18, 2007, 05:04:32 PM

It is more likre doing opposite i.e. switch to old SFS version which supports Kickstart 1.x compatible packets.

And I have no idea is Toaster issue related to this at all. Never used this sw and I use different SFS branch anyway :-)

Title: Re: SFS and FFS
Post by: trilobyte on April 18, 2007, 05:38:04 PM

I wouldn't bet there is a way around it, other than to download the Toaster source code and fix it  ;-)

NewTek does some very low-level things in their code, and if they say to use FFS then you'd best use FFS...

I have used Toaster 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x under OS 2.04, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, and 3.5, and all work well on my FFS partitions... with a Flyer it's best to stay as close to NewTek's recommendations as possible.  Start with a stock system, get it working, and make changes incrementally.  If one change breaks the system, undo that change  :-D