erick@csuf3b.UUCP (Eric Keisler) (05/06/89)
[........................................................................] >> ... upgraded an amiga 2000 with a GVP 40Q hardcard to use the fast file >> system on one partition. Now, showanim does not work properly; >> garbage appears... showamin freaks out. >> >> -- Marshall Levine >> mplevine@phoenix.princeton.edu >I don't think its FFS messing it up. I have a friend who has the GVP >2000/0 with a quantum 40q and GVP informed him/us that for each partition >on your drive the controller allocates 80K of ram. That is probably your >problem. It caused us a lot of grief at one time. We ended up reformatting >the drive with only one partition to get most 1M required demos to work. > > Kendall "Opusii" Sears > KRSEAR01@ULKYVX.bitnet > ...!psuvax!ulkyvx.bitnet!KRSEAR01 (UUCP) > K.SEARS (GEnie) This may be so, but Marshall's problem sounds just like the one I ran into a while back. I had no problems with showanim on my GVP/Seagate 138N equipped A2000 - so long as I used SFS. As soon as I installed 1.3 and FFS (only 1 30mb partition) showanim would display garbaged anims. I spent a few days mucking about and discovered that the following mountlist changes 'fixed' the showanim problems: MaxTransfer = 4096 Mask = 0x7FFFF As a matter of fact, I think just setting Mask = 0x7FFFF worked. Unfortunately, this *reeallly* impacts disk performance - slowing it down by at least a factor of 2. I've seen the same stuff happen on an ST225N using FFS, using the latest version of showanim (5.x??). My solution was to put two partitons on my drive, 1 SFS, 1 FFS. And to do my anim stuff on the SFS side. One other item of note; I've had similar FFS problems with SA4D's anims *AND* SA4D's copy protection scheme. SA4D uses two forms of copy protection - look-up-word-in-the-manual and some sort of 'validation' file (stored in the SYS:S dir). SA4D has problems reading this file under FFS *IF* MaxTransfer and Mask is set as above. If it has problems reading the file SA4D won't load. Talk about a catch 22! Think about it ... Without the MaxTransfer and Mask params SA4D's anims get mucked up. With the params 'she 'aana 'gona load 'capn. So again my 'fix' was to have two partitions: the SFS partition has all my executables, SYS: stuff, and anims; The FFS one has all my other 'non-anim' data. --- erick@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU (Eric Keisler, Computer Services, CSU Fresno)
hgm@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks) (05/08/89)
I had similar problems until I changed a couple parameter in my mountlist. I had set maxtransfer at 4096, and changed something else (it's been six months). I recieved a new installation disk when I ordered my autoboot roms, and reinstalled everything. I have had no problems since, and HD performance was up. --hal -- ---------------- hgm@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu "Everything is a reaction" netoprhm@ncsuvm.bitnet