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Dissapearing files and files not saved
« on: February 24, 2007, 08:51:30 PM »
Have had some weird problems lately on my A1200, I've copied lots of stuff from the AmiKit package to my Prefs/Presets folder but after a reboot some if it is gone! and if I delete all of it some of it is there again after a reboot  :crazy:
Weirdness aplies also when saving my startup-sequence in OS3.9 editpad...sometimes the saving has no effect  :-?
Have noticed this one some rare occasions on my other Amiga's but not as much on this one...I'm starting to suspect that the filesystem is the bug

Anyone have any clues?
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Re: Dissapearing files and files not saved
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2007, 09:07:02 PM »
Definitely sounds like a corrupt file system or a dying hard drive.
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Re: Dissapearing files and files not saved
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2007, 09:14:24 PM »
Now I noticed I can't add anything to the HD, it's just not there after a reboot.. :boohoo:
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Re: Dissapearing files and files not saved
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2007, 09:15:41 PM »
Which filesystem are you using?
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Re: Dissapearing files and files not saved
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2007, 09:28:58 PM »
PFS3, '060 version
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Re: Dissapearing files and files not saved
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2007, 09:33:35 PM »
try from shell:

diskvalid PART: ANALYZE

(where PART: is the PFS3 partition name to check)

Most likely the HD is dying.
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Re: Dissapearing files and files not saved
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2007, 09:39:27 PM »
Maybe not.  I run PFS3 and have this same trouble.  If I wait long enough before rebooting it doesn't happen.  It has to be a cache issue, there's some critical thing PFS isn't writing directly to disk, it's going in the HD's cache instead of the disk.
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Re: Dissapearing files and files not saved
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2007, 09:47:12 PM »
Turn OFF your PFS3 write cache.
The write cache is totally unsafe.
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Re: Dissapearing files and files not saved
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2007, 11:00:39 PM »
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Turn OFF your PFS3 write cache.
The write cache is totally unsafe.


How do I do that?
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Re: Dissapearing files and files not saved
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2007, 11:01:06 PM »
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Framiga wrote:
try from shell:

diskvalid PART: ANALYZE

(where PART: is the PFS3 partition name to check)

Most likely the HD is dying.


Will try, thanks  :-)
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Re: Dissapearing files and files not saved
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2007, 11:11:52 PM »
hmm..diskvalid analyze turned out ok

And tested with a cold reboot after adding files and it works...so warm reboots doesn't save changes/files!  :getmad:  :getmad: wtf1?!!

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Re: Dissapearing files and files not saved
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2007, 11:16:43 PM »
Sounds like a sack of {bleep}e to me. Doesn't 3.9 come with a nice modern FFS? Once a file system displayed this kind of behaviour to me it'd be out faster than you can say "ZX Microdrive".
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Re: Dissapearing files and files not saved
« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2007, 11:19:02 PM »
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Sounds like a sack of {bleep}e to me. Doesn't 3.9 come with a nice modern FFS? Once a file system displayed this kind of behaviour to me it'd be out faster than you can say "ZX Microdrive".


Yeah, but FFS sucks...it's too slow in every aspect

PFS3 has worked very well for me but on this config somethings
fishy..but don't know what yet  :-(
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Re: Dissapearing files and files not saved
« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2007, 12:18:43 AM »
Its the HD... don't listen to the .... ;-)

Theres nothing mentioned by ChaosLord switchable in PFS3 (btw ChaosLord, where have you found that ...?)

The only thing that can break PFS3, its a knackered HD.

Obviously you can try to backup and reformat, before to trow the HD away! but i doubt that it will solve the issue.
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Re: Dissapearing files and files not saved
« Reply #14 on: February 25, 2007, 12:35:41 AM »
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Turn OFF your PFS3 write cache.

There is no way to turn off the write cache in PFS.
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The write cache is totally unsafe.

BS.
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