| From: | Simon Archer |
| Date: | 28 Feb 2001 at 20:15:42 |
| Subject: | Re: Help!!! |
On 28-Feb-01 Tony Rolfe wrote about: Help!!!
Hi Tony
> Much swapping of boards occurred (I can install these things in the
> dark by now!!). Every time the old system worked OK but the new
> one only recognised FFS partitions.
The gvpscsi2.device boards ( most G-Forces) are limited in their
controllers. They will only allocate 32K of memory for the filesystems, and
as PFS2/3, SFS, AFS etc are all larger than that, their isn't enough memory
to start the filesystem. Basically, you cannot run any modern filesystems on
these boards. I think the Guru ROM cured this on the early boards, but the
G-Force doesn't have the same type of ROM. Tough shit :)
> Now comes the major problem. I used ExpertPrep, the GVP
> equivalent of HDToolBox, and that said that the PFS partitions
> were not automaount. Ah ha, I thought, set them to automount
Chances are you're f*cked. NEVER NEVER use ExpertPrep, it has some
non-standard RDB 'features' that other HD tools don't/won't like/recognise.
Regards
Simon Archer
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