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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: problems with using 1.3 FFS with Pacific Peripherals Overdrive
Message-ID: <5145@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 88 18:17:50 GMT
References: <41342@linus.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <41342@linus.UUCP> sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) writes:
>
>I have been unable to get the Workbench 1.3 Fast File System (FFS) to
>work with my Pacific Peripherals Overdrive hardcard on my Amiga 2000.
>
>I called Pacific Peripherals about this.  They suggested that
>FastMemFirst should not be used (the Workbench 1.3 version is
>apparently buggy), and also suggested the following Mountlist entry
>for the FFS partition:

Pacific Peripherals is incorrect.  FastMemFirst is fine,
the problem is that their driver can only handle a limited number
of blocks at a time  (127000 bytes at a time).  It also needs
a bit more than the default stack to operate.  That's what the
changes in the mountlist entry they told you to make do.  They seem
to understand the problem; I've no idea why they are claiming that
FastMemFirst is involved.  If the problem is that their driver
can't take block requests in treal fast memory (as opposed to C00000
memory) then the MASK parameter in the mountlist can be used
instead.
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