SFS problems

[amigagr]

1) i no longer have access to CD-rom. what could it be??

probably the instalation of os3,9 keep the old cd driver for mounting a cdrom but because of scsi.device conflict it can't run properly. do you have any extra scsi or ide hardwear on the amiga? if not in the startup-sequence the setpatch must be configured like this:     C:SetPatch Quiet
if there is a cd driver in Devs directory check if it is configured to use scsi.device unit=1 and CacheCDFS from L: directory.


2) MY 3 partition is actually SEEN on the WB screen, but i get a message saying: HD3 is UNRECOGNIZABLE. If i try to format it, after 1% i get a "scsi.device bla bla bla ERROR". So i cant use it!!

I tought that using together 3.9 & SFS i would be able to get full use of a 20 GB hard disk



you can have full access to all these even with os3,1 with the use of nsdpatch and a patched version of FFS. anyway the combination os3,9 sfs works fine on both my amigas, i install it recently and i don't have ffs anymore on the rdb of my disks. i format the partitions in full mode with the os format, in 1200 ide and in 3000 scsi hard disks and there wasn't any problem. the defrag tool of sfs works fine too. maybe the problem is from scsi device, if so the solution is the same to both of your problems.

[amigagr]

i've been confused with all this
you didn't say about the scsi module and the extra ide interface from the start...
if you don't use the ide buffer inderface remove it or install the softwear, i think that it works with idefix. the cdrom is connected to the ide or scsi module? if it is on scsi you have to set the cd driver to 1230scsi.device. there is an upgrade to the 1230 scsi from phase5 too, version 8,something. i have use my scsi module only once to ''save'' the scsi hard disk of my a3000 and i had the problem that the amiga was booting only from the blizz scsi and couldn't even ''see'' the internal ide!!! and the problem was solved after a lot lot warm reboots so who knows what conflicts happening in the background... at your place i would remove all the extra hardwear, install the os 3.9 and putting it back in place one by one. finaly the scsi.device is ''in'' the file AmigaOSRomUpdate in directory Devs. you must install and the 2 boingbags to have all the latest updates of these files.

don't mess with tools like fastprep use only hdtoolbox, format from os3.9 and of course the tools of sfs if you need them.

[amigagr]

Framiga wrote:
has anyone already installed it?

lo faccio io stanotte doppo il lavoro

[amigagr]

for now i think that sfs is the only available for free and there is pfs v3 that cost some money (i'm at work now and i don't have the link available). in the past there was and the amifilesafe afs. the project of afs has been abandoned some time and became pfs. all these promise something that miss from ffs: no more bitmap errors and long times of disk validation after a power down or similar dameges. i didn't test sfs that way (just in case...) but i see much better behavor from it than a thousand broblems that i have with ffs in the past.

[amigagr]

can't be said simpler, i agree

[amigagr]

oh boy i'm gonna shoot my self..., ok the thing goes like this: you have to install the latest sfs 1.252 in the 20gb disk BUT if you do it you must format ALL the partitions one by one. BEFORE you do anything do this: copy all the files of the boot partition (HD0:) to the HD1: and make HD1: bootable. install the sfs to the HD0: format it and then move the files back to the HD0:  if you don't do it and you just format HD0: because you don't have cdrom available at this point you will not be able to install 3,9 at all (...). procceed with the other partitions the same way, copy the files somewhere else install sfs and format, after put the files back.
i wonder why can't the amiga ''see'' the 1230scsi.device...
try to find in DEVS:DOSDrivers directory if there is a file CD or CD0, if there is not, try to find it in the emergency floppy of 3,9 and copy it to the DEVS:DOSDrivers. maybe it is called EMERGENCY_CD.

[amigagr]

vk3heg wrote:
I have tryed to use the HDToolbox that comes with 3.1. But it just sits there and does nothing. No drives get listed.

i don't remember how it is defined in os 3.1 but in 3.9 in the .info file of hdtoolbox there is a tooltype to determine the scsi device that you want to search and another to display all of the devices that are available. if it is set correctly, after you run the hdtoolbox there is a prompt who asks you to choose the right device.