SFS partition not found?

[mingle]

Hi,

I'm just tinkering with SFS on some spare space on my hard disk, but when I reboot, I can't see the new SFS partition on my Workbench.

It appears to be there when I look in HDToolBox, but I can't appear to access it.

I have the following partitions on my HDD:

IDH0: 1.95GB
IDH1: 1.95GB
SFS0: 0.50GB

Is it something to do with the SFS partition being over the 4GB limit for WB3.1?

If so, what do I need to do to access the SFS partition?

Cheers,

Mike.

[Matt_H]

Did you put SFS in the RDB?

Also try using SFSformat from the Shell.

[mingle]

I'm not sure what I did - just followed the directions in the SFS guide...

The first step is the add SFS (I assume to the RDB) and it appears as a file system from within the advanced options of HDToolBox...

I'll give SFSformat a try now...

Cheers,

Mike.

[mingle]

No luck...

I've even repartitioned and did a clean install of WB3.1 on my hard disk.

I'm running a standard A1200 (2MB chipram only) and a 5GB IBM 2.5" hard disk.

I've partitioned/formatted the HDD as follows:

DH0:  500MB FFS (Workbench 3.1 install is here)
DH1: 1000MB FFS
DH2: 1000MB FFS
DH3: 1000MB FFS
DH4: 1000MB FFS
DH5:  268MB FFS

I downloaded the latest SFS.LHA archive from the official support site and copied the smartfilesystem handler to the L directory on my Workbench partition.

Then I ran HDToolBox and added the new file system as described in the SFS_OLD.guide instructions.

Then I changed the DH2: partition to use the SFS 'custom file system' in HDToolBox.

Then rebooted. The DH2: partition no longer appeared on my workbench after the reboot, so I tried to use the 'sfsformat' command to format the partition, but the command crashes at the point I'm prompted to press 'Enter'.

I've tried the same on the DH5: partition, but it does the same...

So I'm stuck at this point.

Do I need more RAM, or should I be doing something else?

Cheers,

Mike.

[A4000_Mad]

I'm just looking into SFS myself. Just a thought, but you could try adding the SFS file system to all partitions including DH0 (I did this for PFS3 when partitions didn't show up after the reboot)

[mingle]

Hi,

The filesystem is added to the RDB of the hard disk, so it isn't tied to the partition (other that the partition using SFS rather than FFS)

I've tried using HDInstTools (as well as HDToolBox) to add SFS to the drive, but still no luck...

The partition seems to be set up correctly, but it doesn't appear from Workbench and the 'SFSFormat' command crashes each and ever time I try and use it....

Can anyone else help me out?

Cheers,

Mike.

[jrfjunior]

I do the same thing that you last week. SFS partition was not recognized. So I changed MaxTransfer in SFS partition. It was recognized. Format it with SFSFormat. Ok. But the SFS partition was instable. Used the Amiga for 3 hours and the recognization of partition disappeared. Error. So I removed only SFS from RDB. Now I can't acess FFS. So I begin all again. Delete RDB and initiates all partition and formating with FFS. Never more will try use SFS. Perhaps I will try PFS.

Good Luck.

mingle wrote:
Hi,

I'm just tinkering with SFS on some spare space on my hard disk, but when I reboot, I can't see the new SFS partition on my Workbench.

It appears to be there when I look in HDToolBox, but I can't appear to access it.

I have the following partitions on my HDD:

IDH0: 1.95GB
IDH1: 1.95GB
SFS0: 0.50GB

Is it something to do with the SFS partition being over the 4GB limit for WB3.1?

If so, what do I need to do to access the SFS partition?

Cheers,

Mike.

[mingle]

Hi,

Thanks for the info... I tried changing the maxtransfers, but still no luck.. :-(

Wonder what I'm doing wrong?

Mike.

[pVC]

Is it something to do with the SFS partition being over the 4GB limit for WB3.1?

If you are using internal IDE-port without IDE-fix or similar, have you updated scsi.device too? SFS alone isn't enough for more than 4GB if you haven't patched the original scsi.device in any way.

[zipper]

It works upto 8 GB.

[ravepants]

This link helped me the other day.
I havent tried a drive bigger than 4GB though.

http://wiki.abime.net/amiga:killergorilla_sfs_winuae_realhdd

[A4000_Mad]

ravepants wrote:
This link helped me the other day.
I havent tried a drive bigger than 4GB though.

http://wiki.abime.net/amiga:killergorilla_sfs_winuae_realhdd

That looks like a great link thanks ravepants :-)

type Work:SFSformat DRIVE DH0: NAME drivename (replace drivename with the name you want the drive to be labelled)  (The SFSformat command should be in the same dir you extracted the sfs.lha to, change the above command if you unpacked it to a different directory)

I'm trying to get OS4 Classic to use SFS. But I've used the 'Find' function to search my hard drive and SFSformat is nowhere to be found. Shouldn't it already be in there somewhere? :-?

[pVC]

zipper wrote:
It works upto 8 GB.

I thought the newer versions had dropped the direct scsi support?

[zipper]

I meant the scsi.device; probably the old direct scsi version of SFS can still be found somewhere - was it 1.84?

[Framiga]

I'm trying to get OS4 Classic to use SFS. But I've used the 'Find' function to search my hard drive and SFSformat is nowhere to be found. Shouldn't it already be in there somewhere? :-?

no need under AOS4. Use the Quick option of the system format menu tool.