SFS and PFS won't work

[matthey]

I have a 73GB Maxtor Atlas V 68 pin on the CSMKIII SCSI. I would get a Guru before booting with SFS. PFS works fine with the last official version of PFS TD64 but I would use PFSAIO for a new install (PFSAIO DOSType selection is easier and it has better large drive support). I strongly recommend the boot partition to be <4GB and to use 512 byte sectors. Do not do more than a quick format and it is best to use PFS format (with long file names selected) for formatting especially for partitions >4GB. If you can't get at least this boot partition to work then you have major problems.

[matthey]

Well, it's no matter what filesystem I'm using until it's not FFS. If the partition is not validated it takes millions of years until a large partition is finished. I has PFS3 earlier, but it used a lot of space for metadata. OK, wouldn't be a problem anymore. Which version would better, standard PFS oder PFS direct SCSI? I thought on using SFS because it seems to be a standard now, at least MorphOS and AROS are using SFS.

Only FFS needs to be validated and this process uses a lot of memory for large partitions.

Phase 5 hardware usually has good support for TD64 making it a better choice than DirectSCSI but DirectSCSI should work everywhere. I believe PFSAIO will query (and maybe even test) the hardware before selecting TD64, NSD or DirectSCSI as appropriate.

Why shouldn't I use HDInstTools? I was always using it. HDToolBox from 3.1 wouldn't be a very good choice, and I'm not planning to use 3.9. Is there another partitioning tool?

It is bad to mix HDToolBox and HDInstTools. There also may be some bugs in HDInstTools but the AmigaOS 3.1 HDToolBox doesn't handle >4GB partitions very well either. Upgrading to AmigaOS 3.9 with BoingBags would give better large HD support including an improved version of HDToolBox.

Which version of PFS is recommended today?

PFSAIO