Are extenal drves compatible with AmigaOS?

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Re: Are extenal drves compatible with AmigaOS?

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mechanic wrote: I just gave this a try with SFS/2 and have had no problem moving either large or many small files.
It is set for SFS02, 1024 Blocksize, 600 Buffers. It is a PATA drive on a USB adaptor.
I think you'll find it is documented that both SFS(2) and JXFS MUST use a blocksize of 512, anything else has undefined behaviour.

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Re: Are extenal drves compatible with AmigaOS?

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Rigo wrote: I think you'll find it is documented that both SFS(2) and JXFS MUST use a blocksize of 512, anything else has undefined behaviour.

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I usually use SFS00 (properly), but for this experiment everything is working just fine. I have also tried FAT32,
FAT12, and FFS with various blocksize and buffers. Some faster/better than others. Some........OOPS!
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Re: Are extenal drves compatible with AmigaOS?

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Rigo wrote:I think you'll find it is documented that both SFS(2) and JXFS MUST use a blocksize of 512, anything else has undefined behaviour.
Then perhaps MediaToolbox should default to 512 not 1024? :-)
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Re: Are extenal drves compatible with AmigaOS?

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Hypex wrote:I thought I had already mentioned the recently open sourced FUSE based NTFileSystem (from MOS) but somehow it was missed. Given it's by the author of ECX (and I presume written in E though I need to check that)
Nope, it is written in pure C, so any knowledgable OS4 dev should be able to adapt it to OS4.
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