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From:Nuno Berneaud
Date:27 May 2001 at 23:55:53
Subject:Re: PFS3

Hello Bob

On 27-May-01, you wrote:

>BR This is a reply to a message from Nuno Berneaud.
>BR Subject: [amigactive] Re: PFS3:
>BR
>BR Hi Nuno,
>BR> Hello Bob
>BR>
>BR> On 27-May-01, you wrote:
>BR seem to have BR lost about 30MB space on each partition though.
>BR>> Buffers were set at 200, BR deldir left at default. Is this normal?
>BR>
>BR> Yes, the drive becomes smaller, but I don't recall having lost too many
>BR> MB.
>BR>
>BR>> BR I tried to change filing system on another drive (SCSI 2.2Mb)
>BR>> repeatedly BR with both PFS3 and PDS3 and on rebooting got message
>BR>> "Allocated memory does BR not match Memory Mask" for whichever partition
>BR>> I tried to install it.
>BR
>BR
>BR> I never had this problem. Did you mess with the mask and max tranfer
>BR> settings in HDInstTools?
>BR> I have Mask: 0x7FFFFFFF and Max Transfer: 0x00FFFFFF , but I think it
>BR> depends on each setup.
>BR
>BR I left these unchanged to start with. Then used suggested values from docs.
>BR then values from successfully modified drive. Same results each time.
>BR I have now successfully installed one partition on the problem drive, just
>BR carried on despite messages, then formatted it.
>BR Don't really want to try on my boot drive, also SCSI 2.2mb. until I know
>BR exactly what I'm doing.

Have no idea what's happening...
I had PFS2, then upgraded to version 3. Everything worked as intended.
I think there is a site related to PFS. Maybe that's a good idea to go there and
see if it helps. Don't know the URL, though.

Bye,

Nuno

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