Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!gatech!gitpyr!dsking
From: dsking@pyr.gatech.EDU ( David King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How can I tell if I'm running FFS?
Summary: Workbench makes it easy (for once)
Keywords: 1.3, FFS, Overdrive, ST157N
Message-ID: <6824@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 22 Nov 88 00:13:18 GMT
References: <621@cord.UUCP>
Reply-To: dsking@pyr.UUCP ( David King)
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <621@cord.UUCP> nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock) writes:
[Neil describes Overdrive FFS being no faster than SFS and asks
 how to tell if partition if FFS]

	There's a simple trick to recognizing FFS.  Do an info on
the disk's icon.  If the bytes per block is 512, then it is a FFS
partition.  If the bytes per block is 488, then it is a SFS
partition.

	Right now I am running a FFS partition with no MAXTRANSFER
but with a MASK=0x7FFFF.  The FFS partition is SLOWER than SFS in
raw transfer speed, but faster doing directories.  If I remove the
MASK parameter, any executable that is copied into the partition is
corrupted (Task held or "file is not an object module").  Any ideas
anyone?
 
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				- David

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 David King
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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