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Re: Disksalv.......Can it Validate HD's over 4GB?
« on: January 05, 2005, 10:40:52 AM »
This is "perfect" advertisement for alternative filesystems such as PFS3.

At least until proper FFS repair tools supporting >4GB partitions appear.
 

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Re: Disksalv.......Can it Validate HD's over 4GB?
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2005, 02:10:31 PM »
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Maybe running QuarterBackTools might be an idea?

QuarterBackTools doesn't work with >4GB partitions.
 

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Re: Disksalv.......Can it Validate HD's over 4GB?
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2005, 04:29:21 PM »
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It amazes me that such an important this as Validating a Partition of over 4GB doesnt exist for the Amiga?

I think you're mixing things a bit now.

FFS itself at least tries to validate the volume. If the filesystem is the AmigaOS 3.9 one, it handles >4GB just fine.

However the filesystem built-in validator doesn't always manage to validate the disk, and thus you might need to use external tool (DiskSalv or whatever). Unfortunately no proper external tool exists that handles >4GB.

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Does TurboVal work on Partitions and HDs bigger than 4GB?

TurboVal only speed up the validation process by letting only single volume validate at a time. It doesn't do any validation by itself, and thus it has no effect on whether the validation actually works or not.