Dissapearing files and files not saved

[Amigaz]

Have had some weird problems lately on my A1200, I've copied lots of stuff from the AmiKit package to my Prefs/Presets folder but after a reboot some if it is gone! and if I delete all of it some of it is there again after a reboot  :crazy:
Weirdness aplies also when saving my startup-sequence in OS3.9 editpad...sometimes the saving has no effect  :-?
Have noticed this one some rare occasions on my other Amiga's but not as much on this one...I'm starting to suspect that the filesystem is the bug

Anyone have any clues?

[Amigaz]

Now I noticed I can't add anything to the HD, it's just not there after a reboot.. :boohoo:

[Amigaz]

PFS3, '060 version

[Amigaz]

ChaosLord wrote:
Turn OFF your PFS3 write cache.
The write cache is totally unsafe.

How do I do that?

[Amigaz]

Framiga wrote:
try from shell:

diskvalid PART: ANALYZE

(where PART: is the PFS3 partition name to check)

Most likely the HD is dying.

Will try, thanks  :-)

[Amigaz]

hmm..diskvalid analyze turned out ok

And tested with a cold reboot after adding files and it works...so warm reboots doesn't save changes/files!  :getmad:  :getmad: wtf1?!!

[Amigaz]

NoFastMem wrote:
Sounds like a sack of {bleep}e to me. Doesn't 3.9 come with a nice modern FFS? Once a file system displayed this kind of behaviour to me it'd be out faster than you can say "ZX Microdrive".

Yeah, but FFS sucks...it's too slow in every aspect

PFS3 has worked very well for me but on this config somethings
fishy..but don't know what yet  :-(

[Amigaz]

Gonna switch to SFS on my Workebench partition since the other partitions aren't acting weird

I just think it's odd that this symptom is so severe on this setup...I guess Framiga is right also, it's an old IBM 4 gig SCSI drive

[Amigaz]

ChaosLord wrote:
Theory:

Maybe you are running some EVIL hack on your computer, such as Executive or MCP or whatever... and this hack is somehow interfering with or slowing down the write cache so that instead of it being written out in 3 secs it gets written out in 30 secs.  Perhaps some evil prog is generating some enforcer hits to nonexistent memory or who knows what, and it slows your PFS down.

Lots of people have told me about the disappearing files problem on PFS and the disappearing dirs problem on SFS.  Yet other people such as Piru swear that PFS is 100% reliable.  So there must be something different between your system and Piru's to cause this problem.  If you figure out what is different then you will find the problem and permanently alter the course of Amiga history forever more.

Something evil was sure causing it  :-P

Just switched to SFS on the "evil" partition, it works so far..let's so how long...if it starts acting up again I'll bin the harddrive for sure

Not using any fancy sys hacks just Blizkick with some "safe" modules which I'm using trouble free on my other Amiga's  ;-)