Subj : Amiga 3000 with WarpEngine and internal SCSI bus
To   : Patrik Axelsson
From : Ingo Juergensmann
Date : Sun Aug 20 2017 16:03:58

   Hello Patrik!

18 Aug 17 02:43, you wrote to me:

 IJ>> No, they don't show up in Boot Menu.
 PA> What happens if you run HDToolBox on scsi.device with the WarpEngine
 PA> connected?

Hmmm, it's been already some days when I tested this, but I think it didn't
even boot when there is a drive connected to the internal SCSI bus and the
WarpEngine installed. So I couldn't start HDToolBox at all to investigate.

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

I've now ordered AmigaOS 3.9 from Vesalia. So, maybe by the end of next weekend
 I'm hopefully running OS3.9 on a large HDD! ;-)

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

 PA> Actually, all you really need to use it is the pfs3_aio-handler file
 PA> in the archive, which is the filesystem handler you normally add to
 PA> the RDB of the drive with id "PFS3" or in hex as in HDToolBox as
 PA> 0x50465303.
 PA> There is however an archive of what I think is how the last commercial
 PA> release looked which contains documentation and the tools (which are
 PA> not strictly needed to use it):
 PA> http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/PFS3_53

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

So far I haven't figured out how to install PFS and make use of it. Of course I
 added it to RDB, but it lists as FFS or as Custom Filesystem.
But well, let's wait for OS3.9 install CD to arrive... :-)

Ingo


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