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- Version 2.2 of Future Drive Accelerator
-
- which is running out of date in middle of April 2000,
- to give pirates no chance,
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- New features figured out:
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- * 'FDA' give you also more CPU-time, because it's just about 15 times faster,
- than the scsi.device (IDE-Controller).
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- * 'FDA' is 5 times cheaper and 4 times faster than 'PFS' with 'FFS' and all
- well tested disk-repair/reorg-tools with full compatibility to all existing
- programs, it's faster to install, and updates are free.
-
-
-
- FAQ:
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- * Please, enable "Protect tracks in memory with checksummes" in
- preferences, first time you run 'FDA', to figure out whether you have
- installed programs which change foreign memory blocks (cache). If so,
- you should remove the "bad" programs. When there is no further "FDA
- Checksumme-error" request, your system is clean and stable and you
- should disable "Protect tracks in memory with checksummes" to get
- maximum performance.
-
- Perhaps, the next version protect the cache with MMU for "relativ"
- safety; without slow down the performance.
-
- * It is *very recommend* to install 'StackAttack' (also for OS3.5) after
- SetPatch and before FDA in the 'S:Startup-Sequence', it make FDA and
- the whole Amiga more stable (fixes deadlocks, Guru $8000004 & $1000005)
-
- xyz/StackAttack ADDSTACK=512 ;Increase StackSize of every Programm
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- * Install 'StackAttack' before 'PoolMem'.
- And 'PoolMem', with the argument "NoRamReverse", before 'FDA'.
- It's recommended to do not install PoolMem, because the
- Garbage-Collector task "PoolMem.supervisor", waste sometimes CPU-time.
-
- Q: I changed some files and after the reboot, the files are unmodified.
- A: Install DiskSafe. See manual-Requirements.
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- Q: The internet-software crashes very often, and my new emails are not saved.
- A: I use "Async-delay" = 2 sec, for my partitions where i write while i'm
- online, it's good for 28k modems. When you have a faster, you should set
- it to 1 sec, to save the datas back to disk, while you are online. And
- not after a logout without Guru. If the datas aren't written back,
- because the write-traffic of your partition is to high (several writes
- while 1 sec); use "write sync".
-
- Q: Why FDA doesn't wait silently for mounting CD0: and then simply cache it?
- The same is for PC0:, if FDA is started BEFORE PC0: mounts itself
- from Devs/DosDrivers, FDA just complains that "Can't Find PC0:"
- and doesn't care if PC0: is started later...
- A: AmigaOS doesn't have a "simple" mount-notify function, but a hint:
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- Insert in "S:Startup-Sequence" behind SetPatch,
- SaferPatches/PatchControl/SetMan/PatchLib's PatchSetFunc,
- StackAttack, PoolMem and FBlit:
- RUN <>NIL: Sys:System/FDA ENVARC:FDA-Boot.prefs QUIET
- and at bottom of "S:User-Startup":
- Sys:Prefs/FDAPref ENVARC:FDA-AfterBoot.prefs USE
- and save as with FDAPref the two new prefs.
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- Q: I have 16 partitions, how can i enable it quickly?
- A: It's not 'HyperCache', it was difficult enough to detect partitions.
- Use SHIFT-KEY & LEFT-MOUSE.
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-
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- If FDA, or FDAPref while FDA is running, hangs; i will send you a debug version
- to figure out which device is unsupported.
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- Bugfixes are only possible with bugreports!
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-
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- History V2.2 16-Feb-2000
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- * Fixed, the preferences calculate sometimes unreal values of
- 'Size of Track'.
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- * Checksumme calculation faster.
-
- * Fixed, can't create the update-task for IDEfix ATA[PI]
- (CD-drive & ZIP-drive).
-
- * Fixed, unclean termination and preferences-use if 'PatchControl'
- is installed.
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- * Fixed, trackdisk capacity-change detection.
-
- * Fixed, hanging of messydisk.device v1.56.
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- * Perhaps fixed, hanging of cd.device 3.6 (05.03.97) Georg Campana;
- because untested.
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- * Fixed, "Verify error" while writing ½ trax.
-
- * Fixed, "write async" timer restarted while receiving update-command
- according read-command.
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- New USA office address:
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- ShareIt! Inc
- Suite 1800
- Chapel Hill Professional Center
- GREENSBURG PA 15601-8019
- USA
-
- Phone: 724-853-6618
- Fax : 724-850-8187
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- Of course our old address with the PO Box is still available and can be used
- to send us checks and other mail. In future, you are welcome to use our new
- address instead.
-
-
- History V2.0 17-Dec-1999
-
- * Fixed, hanging of mfm.device (CrossDos) v40.9 and fd.device
- (XFileSystem v2.14 ) v42.86; because they use SendIO() without
- WaitIO(). This was also the case for the hanging bug of
- FDAPref.
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- * Fixed, capacity-change detection for XFileSystem v2.17
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- * trackdisk.device OS 3.0 doesn't work with ½ trax and format-command,
- and doesn't reply a error value. The update-task uses now the
- write-command.
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- FAQ addition:
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- * Please, don't install QuietTD from DiskSpare, i don't know why it
- hangs.
-
- * Please, don't use fd.device v42.86 from XFileSystem v2.14 together
- with "verify", use instead mfm.device it works. XFileSystem v2.16 do
- something but not bugfree.
-
- Copyright addition:
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- Registration move to new user is free of charge.
-
-
- History V1.8 09-Nov-1999
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- * Fixed, "write-Async" not 100% working timer.
-
- * Added, PFS against FDA+FFS benchmark.
-
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- History V1.6 30-Sep-1999
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- * Recognize capacity-change of removeable-madias.
- I.e. DD<->HD Disks
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- * English translation of documentation
-
- Thanks to The Amiga Translators Organization [http://ato.vapor.com]
- Jens Neubauer <jens.neubauer@gmx.de> for translate.
- Heiko Hayn <Smeagel@gmx.net> for proof-read.
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- * ESC-Key supported