Help! I'm trying out PFS3 ver 5.3

[paul1981]

Is anyone running PFS on a stock A600 with 2MB Chip mem with real hard drive?  I tried it last month and I found it to be slower than FFS when browsing Workbench (icons appear slower than with FFS).  I mean, icons appear slowly anyway on a 68000 (8 colour magic workbench) but Commodore FFS definitely had the edge in that department. But ASL reguester/directory lists were definitely faster under PFS.
If I was to add some fast memory or upgrade to 020/030 then I'm sure it would probably perform much better than the results I'm getting.
PFS ate more ram as well, which is a downside on a 2MB chip only machine.
I also had problems when copying large directorys (ie dragging DH0 into DH1 root) - I had PFS requesters sometimes appear saying "Out of memory error (RAM)" or something (allocated too much memory for the operation), which has never happened to me before under FFS.  Maybe PFS is a bit dicey on a chip only machine, I don't know but I think I'll stick with FFS.
I'm running Workbench 2.05 & Kickstart 37.350.
According to docs, SFS needs OS3, so it's PFS or FFS for my machine.  Would be nice to use SFS because I know it works well as I've used it for many years on my 1200 without any problems at all.

[paul1981]

@ Paul
How do you feel about adding some fast ram?  It improved my 600 in multiple ways, .

I'd like to leave the card slot free for wireless networking, but yes some fast ram in there would be nice.  I've spent time looking into this but knowing my luck I'll probably buy an SRAM card and then it won't work.  If someone can point me in the right direction to an SRAM card that definitely works with the 600 then I might be tempted.

I'm pondering whether or not to get an ACA630 once they're back in stock from Amigakit, but my personal taste would be to keep it 68000 with fast ram if possible.
Can anyone tell me how easy it is to disable the ACA630?  I mean, is it a key combination you have to press to go back to 68000 mode?  Is it a program I have to run and then reboot?  A jumper maybe?  Can I go back to 68000 mode but keep the fast ram or will that go as well?
From the Amigakit website:
"If you need to run very old software that will only work on the 68000 processor, the ACA630 can be completely disabled."

Thanks Gulliver, strange you should mention PFS for 1.3, because I found it the other day when tinkering with a 1.3 A2000 emulation I've set up, but it didn't occur to me to try it with the A600, but I might do that.

[paul1981]

I've never wirelessly networked a 600 (I have browsed the WWW with one thru a serial modem).  On first glance, I would think you would want an Amiga with better graphics for networking.  I probably don't understand your goals here.

Just wanted it to transfer files via FTP. You're very fortunate having 4MB fast ram.  It must be a nice machine.