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From: donb@bushido.uucp (Donald Burnett)
Subject: Re: Question on FFS on Floppy Drives on A3000.
Message-ID: <1990Aug26.192337.1950@bushido.uucp>
Organization: Bushido Systems of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
References: <1122@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu>
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Date: Sun, 26 Aug 90 19:23:37 GMT

In article <1122@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu> sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (Scott Sutherland) writes:
>
>	I have seen a couple of postings to this group stating how
>to format a floppy disk under the fast file system (FFS) on an
>A3000.  Can anyone tell me where in the manuals that come with the
>A3000 I can find this information?  Also, has anyone done performance
>tests on floppy read/write speeds with and without the FFS?  Could 
>you either email the results to me or post them?  Just curious.
>
>BTW, if I have a FFS formatted floppy and I take it to an A2000, can
>it be read?  
>
>Thanks,
>
>Scott Sutherland
>sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu

This is a really simple question to answer. Just do the following:
FORMAT DRIVE DFX: NAME DISK FFS

Note: This FFS floppy can be used fine on any 2.0 equipped machine, but
because the format is incompatible with the previous floppies it was 
left as an OPTIONAL switch. No more MOUNTing of FILESYSTEMS either.
 
My only question of concern is, is the FASTFILESYSTEM really that much
faster than the standard OFS amiga filesystem being used? I didn't time
anything when using the A3000 and trying this however but from normal 
disk access with that option, I didn't find it any faster.. Can anyone
with technical expertise on filing systems comment on this?? Is there
really any noticeable differences, with lower density/capacity drives?


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