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Version 2.2 of Future Drive Accelerator
which is running out of date in middle of April 2000,
to give pirates no chance,
New features figured out:
* 'FDA' give you also more CPU-time, because it's just about 15 times faster,
than the scsi.device (IDE-Controller).
* 'FDA' is 5 times cheaper and 4 times faster than 'PFS' with 'FFS' and all
well tested disk-repair/reorg-tools with full compatibility to all existing
programs, it's faster to install, and updates are free.
FAQ:
* Please, enable "Protect tracks in memory with checksummes" in
preferences, first time you run 'FDA', to figure out whether you have
installed programs which change foreign memory blocks (cache). If so,
you should remove the "bad" programs. When there is no further "FDA
Checksumme-error" request, your system is clean and stable and you
should disable "Protect tracks in memory with checksummes" to get
maximum performance.
Perhaps, the next version protect the cache with MMU for "relativ"
safety; without slow down the performance.
* It is *very recommend* to install 'StackAttack' (also for OS3.5) after
SetPatch and before FDA in the 'S:Startup-Sequence', it make FDA and
the whole Amiga more stable (fixes deadlocks, Guru $8000004 & $1000005)
xyz/StackAttack ADDSTACK=512 ;Increase StackSize of every Programm
* Install 'StackAttack' before 'PoolMem'.
And 'PoolMem', with the argument "NoRamReverse", before 'FDA'.
It's recommended to do not install PoolMem, because the
Garbage-Collector task "PoolMem.supervisor", waste sometimes CPU-time.
Q: I changed some files and after the reboot, the files are unmodified.
A: Install DiskSafe. See manual-Requirements.
Q: The internet-software crashes very often, and my new emails are not saved.
A: I use "Async-delay" = 2 sec, for my partitions where i write while i'm
online, it's good for 28k modems. When you have a faster, you should set
it to 1 sec, to save the datas back to disk, while you are online. And
not after a logout without Guru. If the datas aren't written back,
because the write-traffic of your partition is to high (several writes
while 1 sec); use "write sync".
Q: Why FDA doesn't wait silently for mounting CD0: and then simply cache it?
The same is for PC0:, if FDA is started BEFORE PC0: mounts itself
from Devs/DosDrivers, FDA just complains that "Can't Find PC0:"
and doesn't care if PC0: is started later...
A: AmigaOS doesn't have a "simple" mount-notify function, but a hint:
Insert in "S:Startup-Sequence" behind SetPatch,
SaferPatches/PatchControl/SetMan/PatchLib's PatchSetFunc,
StackAttack, PoolMem and FBlit:
RUN <>NIL: Sys:System/FDA ENVARC:FDA-Boot.prefs QUIET
and at bottom of "S:User-Startup":
Sys:Prefs/FDAPref ENVARC:FDA-AfterBoot.prefs USE
and save as with FDAPref the two new prefs.
Q: I have 16 partitions, how can i enable it quickly?
A: It's not 'HyperCache', it was difficult enough to detect partitions.
Use SHIFT-KEY & LEFT-MOUSE.
If FDA, or FDAPref while FDA is running, hangs; i will send you a debug version
to figure out which device is unsupported.
Bugfixes are only possible with bugreports!
History V2.2 16-Feb-2000
* Fixed, the preferences calculate sometimes unreal values of
'Size of Track'.
* Checksumme calculation faster.
* Fixed, can't create the update-task for IDEfix ATA[PI]
(CD-drive & ZIP-drive).
* Fixed, unclean termination and preferences-use if 'PatchControl'
is installed.
* Fixed, trackdisk capacity-change detection.
* Fixed, hanging of messydisk.device v1.56.
* Perhaps fixed, hanging of cd.device 3.6 (05.03.97) Georg Campana;
because untested.
* Fixed, "Verify error" while writing ½ trax.
* Fixed, "write async" timer restarted while receiving update-command
according read-command.
New USA office address:
ShareIt! Inc
Suite 1800
Chapel Hill Professional Center
GREENSBURG PA 15601-8019
USA
Phone: 724-853-6618
Fax : 724-850-8187
Of course our old address with the PO Box is still available and can be used
to send us checks and other mail. In future, you are welcome to use our new
address instead.
History V2.0 17-Dec-1999
* Fixed, hanging of mfm.device (CrossDos) v40.9 and fd.device
(XFileSystem v2.14 ) v42.86; because they use SendIO() without
WaitIO(). This was also the case for the hanging bug of
FDAPref.
* Fixed, capacity-change detection for XFileSystem v2.17
* trackdisk.device OS 3.0 doesn't work with ½ trax and format-command,
and doesn't reply a error value. The update-task uses now the
write-command.
FAQ addition:
* Please, don't install QuietTD from DiskSpare, i don't know why it
hangs.
* Please, don't use fd.device v42.86 from XFileSystem v2.14 together
with "verify", use instead mfm.device it works. XFileSystem v2.16 do
something but not bugfree.
Copyright addition:
Registration move to new user is free of charge.
History V1.8 09-Nov-1999
* Fixed, "write-Async" not 100% working timer.
* Added, PFS against FDA+FFS benchmark.
History V1.6 30-Sep-1999
* Recognize capacity-change of removeable-madias.
I.e. DD<->HD Disks
* English translation of documentation
Thanks to The Amiga Translators Organization [http://ato.vapor.com]
Jens Neubauer <jens.neubauer@gmx.de> for translate.
Heiko Hayn <Smeagel@gmx.net> for proof-read.
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