Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!kodak!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!santra.hut.fi!srs From: srs@niksula.hut.fi (Sami Riku Wilhelm Suokas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Fastfile system? Why use on RAD: and 5.25? Message-ID: Date: 17 Feb 91 14:28:08 GMT References: <1052@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au> <1991Feb6.190059.5507@zoot.avgrp.cr.rok.com> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: d_haverkamp@rk7's message of 6 Feb 91 19:00:59 GMT In article <1991Feb6.190059.5507@zoot.avgrp.cr.rok.com> d_haverkamp@rk7 (David Haverkamp) writes: Has anyone setup their Amiga to read either FFS or OFS disks from the floppy drives? I am thinking about doing this but have not tried anything yet. I downloaded a program called ffsfloppy from tolsun.oulu.fi, which described how to mount FFS for disk drives that support OFS. It works fine and I've had no problems with it. You can put 38.5K more data on a FFS disk, but the speed increase isn't that great - except in directory scan. It includes all the necessary files to run the FFS, including autodiskchange. (Better yet has anyone tried to do MSH, FFS, and OFS from floppies... That way you could read whatever disk was in the drive. Also you don't have to worry about labeling the disks with the format.) I also have MSH installed in my system (A500, A590 w/ 2M, A501, 1 exterman floppy disk drive) and it also works just fine. When you have all of them installed, you don't have to worry about in which format the disk is in. You can get the ffsfloppy program by logging in with: rlogin tolsun.oulu.fi -8 -l box and entering a new account, then go to the filesystem area and download ffsfloppy directly to your home. -- Sami R. W. Suokas, Dept. of Computer Science @ Helsinki Univ. of Technology Keihastie 16 B -srs@niksula.hut.fi | Don't you think it's funny that SF01280 VANTAA, Finland -d39142c@kaira.hut.fi | people have learned to love Voice: +-358-0-305993 -ssuokas1@otax.hut.fi | MICE in the past few years?