brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) (12/29/88)
I have my transactor for the ami now :-)
After putting on the appropriate 1.3 enhancements on
my ami 1000 with Supra Corps 30 Meg drive, I noticed that
my backup program (cpio) would fail with a bus error
when using the fast file system. I did extensive testing of
this under all sorts of FFS systems (ram, hard disk)
and found out that there was indeed a problem with
the driver from Supra Corp.
I notified them and they sent me the latest driver from
5.1b to try out. There was a problem with doing reads
on odd byte boundaries apparently. (so they say).
I installed this and repartitioned my entire hard disk
to have a 10 Meg and a 20 meg FFS partition.
It works like a champ now! I can use the FFS (with SupraMount)
and everything seems to work. I have not had a
chance to do speed test, but there is some speed up
I will *not* be posting a comparison of the old vs new. :-)
So, now I have my amiga working completely again, and
can start my development work on graphics again.
What!!?? I'm getting married in 31 days and my fiance is
playing Tetrix all the time so I have to address all
the invites! Oh My GAWD!!! I won't have time to
write anything in that time! Oh well, maybe after the
wedding.
I may try to get Mount to work now. This should be fun :-)
Thanks for everyone who offered help. After I get back from the
honeymoon I should have some stuff to post. (I hope).
brian moffet
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