@Paul1981 -
You sir, I owe you *all* the beer!
:drink::drink::drink::drink:
I struggled for hours trying to get PFS working on my A2000 without success. I'd put it on the back-burner of my long list of projects until I saw your post, which I followed up until the part about loading the OS on (since I already had 3.9 on a backup partition and just moved it over).
Your instructions worked perfectly, and contained info like the 0x50465303 identifier that I couldn't find anywhere else. Now booting off a PFS-formatted 8GB CF card in my MechWare reader, SysSpeed reports that my Create/Open/Dirscan/Delete/Seak/Read operations have gone from about 50% faster to over 400% faster, depending on the operation. Thank you so much!!! The GeForce 040 controller is still a bit of a slug, but at least now it's a fast slug!!! :banana:
Just one question which I know everyone hates: In your post you mentioned MaxTransfer of 0x1fe00 and Mask of 0xfffffffc. I've read in other posts that those are the correct values for A1200 IDE controllers when using a CF, but since I'm using SCSI I can use MaxTransfer of 0x7FFFFFFF and Mask of 0xFFFFFFFF. If I understand correctly this should have the effect of transferring data in larger chunks, since I'm not limited by the IDE bus. Thoughts on which would be "more correct"?
Thanks again! :drink:
Only 472 things to do to have this system complete, LOL.
