SFS and PFS won't work

[nicholas]

especially sfs should be avoided as it corrupts at random. the currently maintained filesystem is pfs3

SFS is atrocious.

/Cue angry mob with burning pitchforks in T-minus 3....2.... 1....

[nicholas]

It might be worth salvaging an old ide CDROM from a PC if you can find one and fitting it in your A4000. Will save you a lot of time.

The Workbench 3.1 install disks have a basic CDROM driver that's easy enough to use.

Or even easier would be to fit the hard drive from your A4000 in a PC and prep it from UAE.

[nicholas]

Which version of PFS is recommended today?

Pfs3aio from Toni Wilen.

[nicholas]

Well, it's no matter what filesystem I'm using until it's not FFS. If the partition is not vaildated 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.

Why should'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?

I read in another forum that a guy had the 80000008 problem on an A1200/060. He updated them and the problem was gone. So I'll try this, and it can't be bad to have newer versions.

Actually I can't add any more stuff because my A4000T setup looks like this. The system gets a new E-ATX case and it has to be modified for the Amiga. If anyone has the schematics of the ports board, that would be great.

Looks like my A3000 at the moment. :lol:

SFS across 68k, AROS, OS4 and MorphOS are incompatible forks for the most part. PFS3 is compatible in all its variants.

[nicholas]

I've used SFS for 10 years on my 060 A1200 with FastATAII, and it's been flawless.

If using PFS, you must use the pfs format tool like what Mike says. Read the instructions carefully, it's easy to use (I use PFS aio on my A600). It allows you to turn on or off long filenames and adjust the delete cache (.recycled hidden drawer on partition). SFS has the same, but '.deldir' IIRC. Hmm... Or is it the other way around? I only had 4 hours sleep last night, that's my excuse.

SFS is OK until you have a problem and it can fast become a nightmare. PFS3 doesn't have these problems do in that respect it's much better. The extra features and performance improvements are icing on the cake.

[nicholas]

Yes.  Doesn't work with latest version of AIO.  I can dig up the error message later, but it was pretty straight-forward - basically "Does not support this version, blah blah", the one time I tried it.  

The only time I've had to run pfsdoctor I used the MorphOS native version.  I don't recall any issues with it, though it was quite a while ago so my memory is very hazy.