Question about the Amiga Fast File System

[StevenJGore]

Hi,

If I format a hard disk or floppy disk with Workbench 3.1, and I tick "Fast File System" in the format dialogue to get a slightly higher capacity, what is the earliest version of Workbench and/or Kickstart that can read these disks?

Please excuse the newbie-type question, but my minds gone blank, and I should know this!

Thanks!
Steve.

[StevenJGore]

2.x can boot from and read Fast File System disks

So presumably a hard drive formatted with FFS in an A1200 would be read-only in an A600?

[StevenJGore]

NightShade737 wrote:
Better advice would be to drop FFS and just use SFS. It's faster and you will never get those dreaded validation or read errors again...

I know, I use SFS on my A1200's hard drive and I've never looked back :-)
I'm just asking a few questions about the earliest version of Workbench and/or Kickstart that can read FFS, that's all.

no, why?

It should work fine.

I was just trying to clarify the first reply. So FFS is fully 2.04 compatible then?

[StevenJGore]

Cheers for all your replies guys!

I also accidentally found something about this over on the English Amiga Board, which I'll put here for anybody who's interested, and for anybody doing forum searches in future :-)

1.3 could autoboot from harddisk but you had to use the standard file system.

The problem came into being was when you had your HDD formatted to FastFileSystem which on 1.3 resided in the L: directory, and how do you autoboot from a drive who's driver resides on the disk you want to autoboot from.

Hence the emergence of 37.175 (2.04), Commodore moved fastfilesystem into the kickstart code, and voila... autobooting drives that had formatted to Fast File System.

[StevenJGore]

Someone please tell me why there is so much partial / misleading information floating around about Amigas?

I don't think it's misleading, but it's definitely partial!

With regards to my above quote, and to be fair, the post from which it was taken was in the context of differences between A600 kickstart ROM's, RDB wasn't part of it. My apologies for quoting out of context! :-)