Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How can I tell if I'm running FFS?
Keywords: 1.3, FFS, Overdrive, ST157N
Message-ID: <5296@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 14:19:43 GMT
References: <621@cord.UUCP> <6824@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Distribution: na
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <6824@pyr.gatech.EDU> dsking@pyr.UUCP ( David King) writes:
>	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?

Yes...you apparently have memory out there that your Overdrive can't
talk to.  That MASK value you are using is making sure the FFS only
uses CHIP ram for its direct DMA....which is going to slow things
down in a big way.

Do you have a really funny ram card or something ?
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