Amiga is in serious, serious trouble

[Unit21]

I have only good experience with Seagate disks.
Western Digital are also ok, but they tend to be a bit NOISY...

I wouldn´t look twice at Maxtor or IBM though, but that´s mainly due to some bad experience with their 40Gig versions a few years ago...

[lempkee]

sfs is a whole new file system, just like afs and pfs is.

i recomend sfs due to bad experience with pfs, but thats another story.

you need to reformat all of your hdd (or partisions which u want to have sfs on)

and remeber USE "QUICK FORMAT" and not full format as sfs and pfs use QF instead of normal slow formats.

remeber block size should be 1024 and not 512,
remeber to get the correct ID number and set as told in the doc the correct max transfer etc.

i advice you to read the doc instead of asking on here due to several reasons, 1 that is of big concern to many is...all old FFS tools wont work (disk salv , quaterbacktools etc) ..

the repair tools with sfs is few and not really tested (by me anyway) because i have so far been lucky and if it crash it has normally fixed it self on bootup ( auto repair )

anyway SFS is much faster than ffs and support 107 char long names.

check the sfs vs pfs threads here on amiga.org for more info.

goodluck!

[CU_AMiGA]

Thanks lempkee and the others, i will do that. What i will do is i will use DiskMonTools for the rescueing data bit, if that fails then i will use Disksalv, not before backing up everything else though. Then i will install SFS, i was thinking about PFS, but thats not free! ;-) I will adjust these settings to what the doc says then reformat the partitions SFS. Hopefully, if things go to plan i will reinstall Amiga OS 3.9, then copy the backup/important goodies from my old HD. And then hope and pray that nothing like this happens again!!!  :pissed:  :ranting:

Oh god! It's gonna be a very long nite indeed! :-(

Regards,

[CU_AMiGA]

Okay,

I used DiskMonTools wo rescue what was left of my Games partition. I did lose quite a few stuff but i had already backed up the most important goodies. So that was okay. Then i tried to get SFS to function. I looked at the docs and decided put L:Smartfilesystem onto another very small partition that is formatted FFS and was planning to hide it on the Workbench sceen, so it wouldn't be in any other use.

Then i would set up the other 4 partitions in SFS. Using the docs, i changed the filesystem mode (custom/sfs) and changed the settings (max transfer, etc) but the problem is that the setting would not save. I thought to myself "what the #### did i do to deserve this piece of bad luck!". I don't know what has happened. Would i need to reinstall the Hard Drive or what, i don't geddit. Has anyone else encountered this proplem/curse?

Regards,

[Floid]

Frostwolf wrote:
IBM drives are made by Hitachi.

Cut the middle man out and save a few bucks

IBM's drive division (incl. associated fabs/factories, etc) was recently sold to Hitachi.  Older drives wear the IBM nameplate; newer drives have the Hitachi nameplate.

No 'middlemen,' just two different owners of the properties.  Some less scrupulous vendors might knock their prices up now that "IBM" branded drives will grow scarce.  ('Enterprise' users looking for direct replacements don't always keep track of things like buyouts.)  This would be fairly unusual with regular drives unless you're shopping in the wrong places, but a little of this has happened with the microdrives, since Hitachi hasn't quite cleaned up the distribution network in the US, and not every Pricewatch vendor has figured out how to restock them.

[CU_AMiGA]

Could someone please tell me why my HDTools settings don't seem to be saving when i have edited them. Please!

Regards,