Need to say this....

[MrZammler]

Ok, I need to say this....

In the last few days, my 3k refused to work properly. Birdie would guru on me on bootup, among other things (mount, setpatch, etc).

Ok, I said, I think it should be a 68040.library thing, changed it with another version, nothing, still getting gurus.

Anyway, after a long fight, I managed to get VirusZ to scan my SYS: partition, and came up with 30+ infected viruses. Managed to kill them all, except PathWB and Benchtrash which said they were corrupt. Ok, moved them out, and tried to reboot.

Well, boot started but stopped somewhere, nothing on the screen.

Edited the startup-sequence, added an echo statement, saved it, reboot..... CLI! Damn. startup-sequence file was gone, and disk was invalidated. Damn twice. And while it was "repairing" the HD,  a requester informed me that block 'something' was used twice!.

Aaargh!

Anyway, going to format SYS:, and get the stuff back from a backup.

The irritating thing is, that this is the second time, this whole thing happens!!!

Anyway, a question: Is there anyone here with a Cyberstorm MK2 040 in an A3000? Which version of 68040.library do you use? Any patches or anything extra?

I'm using RamLibPatch and have added some more stack to keep YAM in specific from crashing at startup, but I've still got some problems. WW7 will crash the system at some point while using it, and Image Studio will guru on startup. It will eventually load after a couple of tries, though.

My system isnt as stable as I would like it, but I cant get to the bottom of this. The strange thing is that, my NetBSD setup is absolutelly flawless. I.e. it manages a kernel compilation (which stresses CPU and MEM), and never had a single problem with it, after long hours of messing around, so I cant really contribute the whole thing to a hardware fault.

So, any thoughts on how I can get my miggy in top shape, would be greatly appriciated. Specs: A3000D, CSMK2 040, 64M RAM, Picasso 2, X-Surf2.

Thanks.

[Hooligan_DCS]

suggestion: time to go for SFS or PFS

say bye bye to FFS.. bye bye.. we wont miss you..


*ffs floats to horizon never coming back*




crowd is cheering and singing songs, happily living ever after.

[MrZammler]

LOL!, ok, but can I have my boot partition as one of them? And which one is more stable/faster?

[Hooligan_DCS]

I have used both, and haven't found significant differences. SFS is free while PFS is commercial ... so..

EDIT:

Maybe I remember wrong, but there was a thread comparing these two filesystems here at amiga.org ?

[lempkee]

yeah there is a thread here on amiga.org covering this..

anyway yes you can boot from a sfs / pfs hdd..

just make sure the BOOT partision is LESS than 4gb big (i would set it to 1.9gb just to make sure) , and most of all IT MUST be Within the 4gb barrier in hdtoolbox (ie the First blocks on hdd..)

goodluck..

[that_punk_guy]

PFS3 vs SFS

[KennyR]

FFS, begone thy foul corruptor of data.

*puff*

Phew.

Even the new OS4 and MOS native FFS2 should not be used where SFS and PFS are usable.

[MrZammler]

Ok, so besides the SFS thing, any other thoughts on the rest of the problems?

[Brian]

...30+ infected viruses...

Virus = unstable system with strange behaviour. Getting ridd of viruses can sometimes trash files and in rare ocasions also the RDB of the HD.

As this have happened before as you say let me give you a good advice, virus check all your harddrives, your backups and your floppys and then make it a habbit of always having a virus checker running in background and check your harddrive every once in a while.