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   Ingo Juergensmann to Patrik Axelsson   
   Amiga 3000 with WarpEngine and internal    
   20 Aug 17 16:03:58   
   
      Hello Patrik!   
      
   18 Aug 17 02:43, you wrote to me:   
      
    IJ>> No, they don't show up in Boot Menu.   
    PA> What happens if you run HDToolBox on scsi.device with the WarpEngine   
    PA> connected?   
      
   Hmmm, it's been already some days when I tested this, but I think it didn't   
   even boot when there is a drive connected to the internal SCSI bus and the   
   WarpEngine installed. So I couldn't start HDToolBox at all to investigate.   
      
    IJ>> Sure, but the NSD docs don't list warpdrive.device as supported   
    IJ>> device nor found I an evidence that it is supporting large disks   
    IJ>> in general.   
    PA> The following entry can be found in DEVS:NDSPatch.cfg in OS3.9: #   
    PA> WarpEngine DEVICE warpdrive.device DEVICETYPE NSDEVTYPE_TRACKDISK   
    PA> COMMANDS 1-15,20-23,28 VERSION 40 REVISION 66   
      
   I've now ordered AmigaOS 3.9 from Vesalia. So, maybe by the end of next   
   weekend I'm hopefully running OS3.9 on a large HDD! ;-)   
      
    IJ>> However, it seems as if I don't need just pfs-aoi, but also some   
    IJ>> other parts of pfs. Hints are welcome! ;-)   
      
    PA> Actually, all you really need to use it is the pfs3_aio-handler file   
    PA> in the archive, which is the filesystem handler you normally add to   
    PA> the RDB of the drive with id "PFS3" or in hex as in HDToolBox as   
    PA> 0x50465303.   
    PA> There is however an archive of what I think is how the last commercial   
    PA> release looked which contains documentation and the tools (which are   
    PA> not strictly needed to use it):   
    PA> http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/PFS3_53   
      
    PA> Note that the main difference between the last commercial release and   
    PA> pfs-aio is that there is only one version of the handler and that it   
    PA> automatically detects wether to use NSD, TD64 or DirectSCSI for access   
    PA> beyond 4GB and will refuse to mount such partitions if it fails to   
    PA> access both the beginning and end of them correctly.   
      
   So far I haven't figured out how to install PFS and make use of it. Of course   
   I added it to RDB, but it lists as FFS or as Custom Filesystem.   
   But well, let's wait for OS3.9 install CD to arrive... :-)   
      
   Ingo   
      
      
   --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5--b20170303   
    * Origin: AmigaXess - back in FidoNet after 17 years  (2:2452/413)   

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