| From: | Richard Lane |
| Date: | 30 Sep 2001 at 09:43:24 |
| Subject: | Re: [amigactive] Re: Amiga DOS versions? |
Hello Ray,
Saturday, September 29, 2001, 8:25:28 PM, you wrote:
>>RL DOS0 the OFS (Original file system)
>>RL DOS1 the newer FFS (Fast file system)
>>RL DOS3 introduced iirc in Workbench 3.x FFS-DC (Fast filesystem directory cache)
>>RL
>>RL You can check these by formatting a floppy disk.
> If that is correct then DOS3 shouldn't be used on a harddrive partition as
> directory cache causes terrible problems. I can't remember who started
> this thread but I think his best bet would be to backup that partition,
> go into HDToolbox and untick the dir cache then reformat the drive and
> reinstall his backup. Directory cache was only for floppies, there was a
> program on Aminet to change this without losing the software, IIRC by
> Joanne Dow but I have no idea what it was called.
Well FWIW I've had many FFS-DC formatted partitions over the years and
haven't had any problems other than the normal disk getting itself
unvalidated when crashing while accessing a partition, which happens with
normal FFS partitions as well.
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