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Offline LuigiThirtyTopic starter

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PFS3 SD card Setup
« on: November 25, 2016, 08:24:36 PM »
I have an A2000 with a GVP 030 SCSI host, a SCSI2SD and 4GB SD card and I'm trying to get PFS set up. I have two 1.8GB partitions on it. I connected the SD card to my PC and loaded it with WinUAE, partitioned it with the PFS3 filesystem, and formatted the partitions I made with pfsformat, following the instructions here. I installed Workbench on it and I can boot my Amiga with the SD card.

The problem comes when I try to do anything on the drive though. If I try extracting an .lha file, I get PFS-III error requesters that say Write Error 0 counting up every 64 sectors/32KB. Tiny files (like saving a new script with ed) work fine. After the write errors I get block ID errors on that volume when I try opening any directories until I reboot. pfsdoctor can't find anything wrong with the volume. What am I doing wrong here?
 

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Re: PFS3 SD card Setup
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2016, 08:59:57 PM »
MaxTransfer is 0x1FE00 like in the PFS3 walkthrough there. Can I lower it without having to reformat?
 

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Re: PFS3 SD card Setup
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2016, 12:47:15 AM »
HDToolbox said I'd lose all my data if I changed it was why I asked. The settings should all be the same as on the page but I'll double check when I get home.

I'm using PFS3-AIO 2.3, the one on AmiNet. The SD card is a standard 4GB Sandisk that's brand new.

It's also got a SCSI CD-RW drive and a fried floppy drive if that matters. (I have a Gotek in my ST that I'll probably throw in there.)
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Re: PFS3 SD card Setup
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2016, 07:08:58 AM »
My startup-sequence adds 200 buffers to DH0: and DH1:. I've got 12MB of 32-bit RAM and 6MB of fast RAM.
 

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Re: PFS3 SD card Setup
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2016, 04:10:16 PM »
Here's my file system from the HDToolbox setup. (I tried lowering Maxtransfer to 0xFE00 but it didn't help other than lowering how much was transferred between errors...)

http://i.imgur.com/XsMVTxn.jpg
 

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Re: PFS3 SD card Setup
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2016, 06:32:41 PM »
It looks like that fixed it! I guess my hardware doesn't like PDS\03. I also changed it to add the buffers through HDToolbox. Thanks!

Now if I could get a fancy desktop on my machine like yours there I'd be set.