Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!unido!uklirb!incas!dost!stolp From: stolp@dost.informatik.uni-kl.de (Torsten Stolpmann (PA Buhler)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Need help with FastDiskII problem Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 91 12:40:03 GMT References: <1991Apr16.134655.1565@dayton.saic.com> Sender: news@incas.informatik.uni-kl.de (News System) Organization: FB Informatik - Uni Kaiserslautern Lines: 56 Nntp-Posting-Host: dost.informatik.uni-kl.de ake@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) writes: > I am having a problem running the FastDiskII program that is on one >of the Fred Fish disks. After I use it to create a new disk, I try to open >the disk icon. As the last icon image appears, the system GURU's! If I use >CLI and try to delete a file from the disk, the same thing happens. I don't >know enough about the inner workings of the O.S. to go in myself and fix the >bug. The author is in Germany or somewhere overseas so I thought I might >appeal to the net and see if someone has noticed this problem and fixed it or >might be willing to see what the trouble might be. If I don't get this fixed, >I might go out and purchase B.A.D. to help out my floppy access. Anyone into >seeing what might be wrong with FastDiskII? Here are some notes on FastDisk by the original author: FastDiskII (written by Oliver Wagner) was based on FastDisk1.5 (written by me) and contains some serious bugs, which were not present in Version 1.5. PLEASE DO NOT USE FASTDISKII, since it isn't of much use. Oliver sent FastDiskII to Fred Fish without giving me a chance to authorize or check it, thus spoiling my reputation as a programmer. Since Version 1.5 (which was quite stable, the only reported bugs were the missing ability to process empty files and some strange behaviour with incon- sistent disks), there was another Release Version (1.8) which has lots of im- provements (ability to use all kind of devices ie. FF0:, RAD:, Harddisks etc., FastMem-Support, better performance and more) which I'm willing to upload to abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov or post to comp.binaries.amiga, if such interest exists. Version 1.9 is currently in the Beta-testing stage and will be released to the public in Summer 1991. This Version supports the Fast-Filing System and con- tains an Intuition-interface (lots of other improvements too). Future releases past 1.9 will be able to operate on a single device. I'm still thinking over an efficient way to do this (Better than B.A.D. :( or QB-Tools :< ). Hope this helps, Torsten "Thor" Stolpmann BTW: Does anybody know exactly, how Extended-Bitmapblocks are implemented? I know that there is a Pointer in the RootBlock to a chained list of Bitmap-extensionblocks, but I have no information about the contents of these blocks, and no sufficiently large Harddisk to find out myself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Torsten "Thor" Stolpmann stolp@informatik.uni-kl.de (sorry, can't send Email) "The world is my oyster" F.g.t.H. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------