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Re: Help! I'm trying out PFS3 ver 5.3
« on: January 02, 2012, 01:52:25 AM »
@Tenacious

I believe that your own initial Mask and MaxTransfer settings were correct.

IMHO I believe that Cosmos gave you settings for the crap A1200/A4000 hunk of junk IDE interface.

I have used many HD interfaces on my Amigas over the centuries and the A3000 SCSI was by far the best one ever.

I would stick with your original mask and maxtransfer unless someone with an A3000 who has specific technical information on this subject can give a reason as to why your values were wrong.

Yes the A3000 does have a 32bit bus.  Yes the A3000 ECS chipram is organized into 32-bit chunks just like an AGA machine.  Of course the Fastram is 32-bit also.
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Re: Help! I'm trying out PFS3 ver 5.3
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2012, 02:13:52 AM »
Quote from: Tenacious;673935
 It's hard to communicate the loss 2 years ago when, a setup I believed to be "bullet proof", went belly up.  I had 2 HDs, both 4 Gig Quantums, each a mirror of the other, installed.  They both corrupted on different partitions but within a month of each other.  Is there something strange in PFS2?  Could it happen again in PFS3?

I communicate with many many Amiga users.

A great number have complained about data going missing when using SFS.

Several people have complained of data going missing on PFS3.

Because of all these complaints I have just stuck with good old reliable FFS all these years.

I do want to try out PFS3 though.  The lure of faster speed is hard to resist :)   but the possibility of losing data is scary. :nervous:

I love the guy who coded PFS3.  He is very very cool.  I love Piru for helping to continue its development a bit.

But it just seems to me, looking at it from the perspective of a business manager, that there is a certain level of risk involved in switching to PFS3.

If PFS3 is in fact 100% reliable then it means that all the people who complained about PFS3 were either:
A: Idiots :)
B: Had defective hard drives.
C: Had defective HD controllers
D: Had defective ram in their ancient Amigas
E: Had unreliable electrical power coming through the wall socket.
F: Had defective Power Supplies.
G: Running some evil hack or buggy program that corrupted the filesystem.
H: Other?

I realize that A-H are completely possible and that PFS3 might be 80000% reliable.  But I don't know for a fact.

I hope this analysis helps you in some way :)
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