Subj : Re: Amiga 3000 with WarpEngine and internal SCSI bus
To   : Ingo Juergensmann
From : Patrik Axelsson
Date : Fri Aug 18 2017 02:43:44

Hi Ingo,

 IJ> No, they don't show up in Boot Menu.

What happens if you run HDToolBox on scsi.device with the WarpEngine connected?

 IJ> Sure, but the NSD docs don't list warpdrive.device as supported
 IJ> device nor found I an evidence that it is supporting large disks in
 IJ> general.

The following entry can be found in DEVS:NDSPatch.cfg in OS3.9: # WarpEngine 
DEVICE warpdrive.device DEVICETYPE NSDEVTYPE_TRACKDISK  COMMANDS 1-15,20-23,28 
VERSION 40 REVISION 66

 IJ> However, it seems as if I don't need just pfs-aoi, but also some
 IJ> other parts of pfs. Hints are welcome! ;-)

Actually, all you really need to use it is the pfs3_aio-handler file in the 
archive, which is the filesystem handler you normally add to the RDB of the 
drive with id "PFS3" or in hex as in HDToolBox as 0x50465303.

There is however an archive of what I think is how the last commercial release 
looked which contains documentation and the tools (which are not strictly 
needed to use it):
http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/PFS3_53

Note that the main difference between the last commercial release and pfs-aio 
is that there is only one version of the handler and that it automatically 
detects wether to use NSD, TD64 or DirectSCSI for access beyond 4GB and will 
refuse to mount such partitions if it fails to access both the beginning and 
end of them correctly.

Regards,
Patrik

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