@ZeroG

The disk isn't gone, only the JXFS partition. I clicked Save in MTB after it wanted to change those settings.

@redfox

Ok, thanks. I'll restore it then and see.

@redfox

Your finding seems wierd to say the least..

My JXFS volume has disappeared completely now The partition is still there though says MediaToolbox and it is auto-mountable.

It disappeared after I connected and removed my CompactFlash card I have for back ups.

Because of bit errors I got on the CF card aswell I decided to comment out Kickstart/diskcache.library.kmod. Perhaps that is why the JXFS partition doesn't mount? Does it require diskcache.library?

@redfox

One question: Did you make your JXFS partition bootable?
In that case OS4 (not U-Boot) might try to boot it everytime you try to add it, but it's empty so you get Please insert ENV:.

OS4 can most likely boot JXFS, but U-Boot cannot load kickstart modules from JXFS. This might get confusing since it has happened many time for me that U-Boots boots another partition than OS4 does!

For example, UBoot may load kickstart modules from somewhere, but OS4 say no bootable disk found and puts up that purple insert disk screen.

@redfox

There is no maximum partition size (unless there is a bug), that is why JXFS exists. SFS/0 has a maximum partition size of about 120GB, SFS/2 fixed that but perhaps the fix was not a good fix which is why JXFS was born.

Maybe, as you say, WD disks have a problem or are different somehow, but I kind of doubt that too.

I've had a couple of WD Caviar disks and they have all worked fine. This disk is a 160GB Maxtor.

Perhaps its buffers got trashed when I first filled up the disk, or perhaps it's simply dying?

Ok, this is just getting worse...

Everytime my backup runs I get a million requesters from JXFS that a block-ID was incorrect. After clicking OK a few hundred times I noticed that the requester saying that the block (there are 4 or 5 damaged blocks and they all seem to carry directory information since they reoccur all the time) was ALWAYS expected to have ID 0x44415441 but it was something else. A new random value every time.

Do you know what 0x44415441 spells if you write it in text?? It spells "DATA".

This smells like a bug to me. A word from Joerg would be much appreciated before my disk crashes completely.

The question is, should I reformat and fill the disk differently, hoping to hide the bad blocks, which JXFS apparently can handle or fix, in some mp3s or movies where they won't hurt anyone..? Right now they are scattered all over my programming backup directories.

So, is SFS better at handling bad blocks, or does it simply not report broken files? I believe in the latter since I have noticed that my mp3s have degraded in quality over time. There are more and more files with hickups in them (and I think its not just my imagination;)) and that partition uses SFS.

May JXFS simply be better at reporting the problems..?

@Atheist

How can AWeb take 4 seconds to start for you??

OWB takes 3 seconds on my XE.
IB takes 0.5 seconds
AWeb takes about 1 second.

@Antique

Any new news on this?
Even if IB will never have full CSS support etc. I would still very much like to see a bug fix update of it to get rid of all these annoying crashes, especially around the javascript.

I believe they said ages ago that they fixed the "startup bug" and other JS bugs so why haven't they released these bug fixes? What's the problem really? I mean it needs a keyfile anyway to, so no problem with releasing "public full versions" or anything...

OWB crashes too sometimes but it can atleast be restarted. IBrowse is a MUI "exclusive" application which sucks when it crashes, thanks to the commodity that can't be removed with any tool

@jahc

Wide screen monitors are usually 16:10 aspect but now there have started to show up 16:9 monitors as well.

1920x1080 would be 16:9 with square pixels.
1920x1200 would be 16:10 with square pixels.

I would go for the slightly more squared 16:10 monitor unless you are going to feed it 1080 Full-HD material which obviously looks better on a true 16:9 display with 100% pixel-to-pixel matching.

Feeding 1080 to a 1200 screen requires scaling of course, which always looks worse than the native pixel resolution, and the aspect would be slightly warped.

And most importantly: Do not expect to EVER send it anything else than its native resolution from the computer, it always looks crap on an LCD monitor. Only exception is when playing movies which will be scaled no matter what...

@TSK

I probably should have rebooted when I noticed the error, but I didn't and now I can't get rid of the damaged directory

What do you recommend? Reformat and try again..?

It's quite annoying the file system can't fix an error like this itself by terminating or correcting the damaged block and carry on in a clean state.

I have 37GB on this partition now and really don't want to reformat it again.

@ChrisH

I also didn't quite trust this new file system very much, and SFS/2 even less, but after being out in the public for a while and after the quickfix I thought it would be safe.

Does the author of JXFS have anything to add here..?

@all

Well, I'm using JXFS on my largest partition now and after copying everything back I noticed an error in my single most important directory: My programming work directory containing all of my latest work!

As soon as I touch this directory I get this error requester:
JXfileSystem

DH5
has a blockid error in block 27361
Expected was blockid 0x41545452
but the block says it is blockid 0xFC62F92A


The directory looks only halv full but almost all files was copied according to the backup log. Also, I could delete all visible files but the directory is still not empty (only looks so) and I get an error 81 from any DOS tool trying to delete it.

HELP!?!

I have sometimes seen similar errors with SFS but it could fix itself and I would never see the error again. This one is persistant.

@freddix

> So I can setup a pointer to an int and use it to put a float32 inside memory ?

Yes, but I'd recommend an uint32 to be absolutely sure it stays 32-bit in the future.

@Raziel

So we have to live with a visible .recycled dir??

That will screw up backups and find operations! :( How very unpractical.

@my_pc_is_amiga

Ok, I have quick formated (with the WB menu option), but I notice that the .recycled directory is visible in a normal directory listing!

How do I hide it like in SFS??

@bean

Take a look at OS4Depot. I made some fixes in the demo archive for the header and demo program. Nothing in the actual mpega source though.

Hi!

Since there is no forum for JXFS but it is very similar to SFS I thought I'd post here...

I'm about to install JXFS on a large partition of mine to be able to handle large files but then it struck me that I don't know any details and I couldn't find any docs for JXFS in OS4.1.

So, what block size should I use?

Is the correct DOS type JXF\04? (Assuming it is since that is the only thing listed in Media Toolbox.)

Any other details I should now, like recommended buffers for example?

Nice work, - like the steady updates....
...but I had to file a bug report on os4depot on a crash that happens everytime I try to visit this site: http://www.gesunda.com/sv/MTB_North

I also cannot fill in my time report cards at my employer adecco.se. I can log in and everything but when I try to access my weekly time report card I just get a page saying "Error" and a "Back" button that doesn't work. That site uses iframes and JS quite a lot. Something is wrong there anyway and I don't know what

I hate needing to use a PC for this seemingly simple task. Perhaps it's simply a matter of spoofing? The page may look for "known" browsers..? But then it should complain earlier I think, not letting me log in or anything.

Actually, lack of spoofing prevented me from entering a site recently. Trying IBrowse spoofing as FF1.5 let me in and it worked fine which was unexpected on such a site (can't remember which now)

@Troels

I have written program for both MUI and ReAction and I like to say that MUI is simpler and more comfortable to write for. ReAction have a few advantages but MUI has more. My main reason when choosing MUI over ReAction for new OS4 programs is that I like to stay portable and using ReAction isn't portable - it only exists on OS4 and possibly OS3.5/9. MUI exists on all platforms.

@Swoop

The MIDDLE mouse button, ok. Thanks!
Unexpected (unstandardized) for a context menu though, but now that you mentioned it I do think I've heard about it... :)

I really miss a "Copy URL to clipboard" feature in OWB.

Some links to a file cannot be entered (safely) but there is no way to copy the link unless I enter it. Some links actually doesn't even appear in the address field even if entered and thus cannot ever be copied! A bit annoying.

Copy URLs is not only useful because of the lack of download, but also if I like to send a link to a friend over chat or mail but without entering the link (because it may be big and I don't want to loose my current side or whatever).

Copy URLs is also very useful if I want to open a link in a new tab (or another browser) since there is no "Open link in new tab" feature either.

Any ideas on this?

@tomsoniq

Try setting more channels for the AHI unit you are using. Perhaps there is another program using AHI at the moment and if you only have one channel configured this will be taken and the program you try to start fails to open AHI. Just an idea...