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Re: SFS Partition Dead - SOLVED

Posted on: 2007/1/29 22:46 #521

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@joerg

I have done a lot of copying tonight, all seems OK so far

The duff partition is now unmounted again and the kickstart files restored to normal. I will keep both the duff partition and recovery kickstart files just in case I need to restore anything else.

Many thanks for the help. It saved my Miggy

Bill.

PS. All Amigans - Visit http://strohmayer.org/sfs/ and click on the Donate button, I just did

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Re: SFS Partition Dead

Posted on: 2007/1/29 21:58 #522

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@joerg

Frigging MAGIC.

I know I will probably find files I cannot retrieve but am so far managing to recover a lot

More than enough to enable me to get what I want back.

I guess when finished it will be safer to go back to the usual diskcache.library.kmod and Smartfilesystem.

But for now it seems to e workning and working well. Very well. No delays and I can copy using DOpus - to a special folder as a lot of files may still be corrupt but at least I can copy them.

Cheers. You are God.

Bill.

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Re: SFS Partition Dead

Posted on: 2007/1/29 21:22 #523

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@joerg

Cheers, I have renamed the old files and copied the new ones over and am about to restart my Amiga now.

Fingers crossed.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Bill.

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Re: SFS Partition Dead

Posted on: 2007/1/29 10:09 #524

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@joerg

Quote:

No current backup?

I have all partitions backed up on a seperate HD. Unfortunately a lot of recent emails with holiday confirmations are on the current, now defunct, partition.

The backup is not that current, but at least I have a runnable system in the meantime.

Quote:

There is no tool to repair SFS partitions, but you can use the "Salvage" function of PartitionWizard which will copy the rescued files to another partition.

I am trying that, I do get a list and can save some files, but if I find just one that will not copy I get locked and have to reboot. The delay before the requester appears after mounting my duff partition makes this an extremely slow process

Quote:

The error from the first requester is a device error, probably one or more bad sector(s) which can't be repaired automatically by the drive.
Using retry doesn't help since the error wont go away, but using cancel doesn't help either and causes the second requester, without the data from the unreadable sector(s) SmartFileSystem can't continue ...

Thanks for the info. Retry seems not to help at all, cancel allows me to continue but with all the problems still there.

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If you don't get everything you need back with the PartitionWizard Salvage function I can build a special version of SFS which tries to ignore the error/missing information,

That would be extremely useful, as Partition Wizard seems to have helped me copy over only a few small files so far.

Quote:

If you get everything back with PartitionWizard and want to reformat the partition you have to do a full format,

Or scrap that area of the HD entirely and split another partition somewhere.

Thanks for the help.

Must rush as I have to go to work in a few minutes.

Bill.

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Re: SFS Partition Dead

Posted on: 2007/1/28 23:10 #525

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Sorry grabbed the last as an ILBM not a jpeg, never mind.

Anyway that requester is followed by this one.

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Any SFS experts who can enlighten me as to what these errors are and can anything be done to fix them ?

Bill.

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SFS Partition Dead

Posted on: 2007/1/28 23:09 #526

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Hi,

Turned on the A1 tonight and my Comms partition is dead. It is an SFS partition.

I can set it not to automount in MediaToolbox which will stop the agonising delays at boot up.

I get a busy pointer which hands around for ages then the following message.

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I have to click cancel.

I can then look at the partition in DOpus but as soon as I try to copy anything I get the busy pointer for another eternity and then the message again.

I don't want to delete or format the partition as there is a LOT of stuff on it I want to keep

Is there a way to repair this error, or at least reduce the endless delay so I can try and copy a few of the files to another partiton ?

Bill.

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Re: Happy Amigans is around

Posted on: 2007/1/26 22:19 #527

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@Adept

There was some useful info about getting VistaPro running on OS4

As for the 26 page nonsense about "something or nothing", I just ignore those. You just get the same people banging on and on.

If you ignore the crap AWN still has a few bits of useful info. albeit not that easy to find.

Bill.

PS. Just looked again, the ranting thread has now reached 30 pages!

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Re: Screen Promotion with OS4

Posted on: 2007/1/22 22:04 #528

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@Snuffy

Hey Dennis, what happened to your dog avatar?

I liked that one much better.

Bill.

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Re: Screen Promotion with OS4

Posted on: 2007/1/22 21:02 #529

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@sundown

Quote:

sundown wrote:
On the final CD, there is a directory called Documentation. Look in Documentation/Intuition, the Screen prefs doc is called ScreenEditor. I've alway been meaning to print all those docs out as there's a lot of good info in there.

I wish they had put all this documentation in Amiga Guide format though. Reading through a huge text file is not a good way to do things.

Bill

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Re: Screen Promotion with OS4

Posted on: 2007/1/22 21:00 #530

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@ssolie

I have always found the Screens prefs a bit on the flakey side. You used to be able to set up custom settings but now [since update pre4 to be exact] if you try you get errors saying that it cannot open the GUI or Palette prefs.

Also if you have a look on the Vista Pro thread on AWN, ModePro seems to be able to get mode promoting to work when the Screens fails.

Even stranger some can promote using Screens and others (like myself) can't.

ModePro does do the business when using Screens fails but I would like one less hack in the system and just use OS4 supplied solutions.

Bill.

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Re: The worst night ?

Posted on: 2007/1/20 13:06 #531

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@AmiGame

Quote:

Did any of you have been affected (yet) by this weather ?
Jerry

Not directly, surprisingly the last two days have been calm and sunny in Scotland - makes a change ! Its back to normal today though - wind and rain - but that is usual around here

The missus did travel down to London yesterday though, she set off at 9am and was meant to get to the accommodation at around 7pm. Apparently there were no trains and hardly any tubes running down there so she eventually did not get there until after 9:30pm.

Any news of whether the transport is back and running down there ?

Bill.

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Re: WHDload & Os4

Posted on: 2007/1/20 12:47 #532

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@BooBoo

Quote:

Are AmigaDos friendly games like Quake compatibe with JIT emulation?

In the case of Quake it really doesn't matter as there are OS4 native versions of both Quake and gl_Quake. There is no real reason to even try and use 68k emulation.

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Re: New 32-Bit pointer on OS4Depot

Posted on: 2007/1/19 17:14 #533

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@Elwood

Quote:

Well, maybe I'm the only one but I don't see any reason to have 32 bits pointers. :-/

Neither did I at first, but there are advantages by using the format even if you still only use a few colours.

If using the normal pointer prefs you create a pointer that uses a different set of the four colours to the default, then applications that use teir own pointer imagery can look weird. I was using a pointer prefs that was fine but in IB2.4 the hand looked dreadful and I could hardly see it.

Converting the same pointer and busy pointer into png def_icons means that the pointer images are now read from files in sys:envarc and over-ride your pointer prefs. So you can leave the old pointer prefs as the default but still have a nice looking pointer for general use. Applications that use their own pointer imagery look right as they have the default 4 colour palette, and not that of your new pointer.

With the new format you can play around adding shadows etc.

Another advantage is that the busy pointer and normal popinter are separate files. So if you like someone's busy pointer but hate the normal one, you can mix and match them with someone elses

Bill

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Re: OS4 Final mouse pointer size

Posted on: 2007/1/19 12:12 #534

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@ssolie

Quote:

ssolie wrote:
@BillE
[quote]
I look forward to seeing the pointers. This new 32 bit pointer feature is kinda growing on me.

The thing I like about them is that they don't mess up the pointer in applications that use custom pointer imagery, IBrowse, TurboCalc, Digital Universe etc.

With the old pointer prefs, if you used colours different to those used in the default pointer, you could get funny looking pointers. For example the IB2.4 "hand" was not easy to see using the normal pointer prefs version of my pointer as the hand outline was yellow instead of black.

With the new system you leave the default pointer as is so other apps pointer colours look as they should but you still get a nice WB pointer using the images in envarc:sys

Its a nice feature, that at first I must admit I didn't see the "point" of. [bad pun intended]

Bill.

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Re: OS4 Final mouse pointer size

Posted on: 2007/1/18 14:39 #535

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@Severin

> Then dump BT and pay your line rental to someone else...

I am with Post Office Home Phone, that just makes matters worse as BT then tell you aren't even a customer ! Of course when the line is the problem, that is still BT's.

They all just tell you to "contact your service provider" anyway.

The good news is that today, it only took them five weeks, that someone did eventually come round to fix it. Split pairs accidentally inroduced on my line when doing other work in December

It is all the bureaucracy you have to go through that is the problem, no one takes any responsibility though the line belongs clearly to BT who at one point even denied having done anything to cause the problem.

I suppose to stay on topic I had better archive my mouse pointers and upload them somewhere now.

Bill

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Re: OS4 Final mouse pointer size

Posted on: 2007/1/17 17:31 #536

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@Severin

Hey, I'm not defending M$ by any means, it is just BT are diabolical.

Five weeks ago now they came and did some work locally, replaced some older lines by an underground cable and now removed the old lines that worked. Since then zilch, no ADSL.

No one at BT is responsible, they know they did something but won't do anything. They just like a stuck record keep passing me back to my ISP, who try but when they arrange for BT to come round they never turn up and the one time they did all the bloke did was tell me I wasn't getting a sync. I knew that already !

I am absolutely sick of BT but round here they are the only way you can even connect to the internet

Thank goodness for USB pens, at least I did eventually manage to download OS4 final at the local library, no chance of even thinking of doing it here. IB2.4 took long enough.

Bill.

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Re: OS4 Final mouse pointer size

Posted on: 2007/1/13 21:43 #537

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@abalaban

Quote:

Thank you for your answer, the problem is not the hot spot position, it seems to be good, but rather the form of the pointer itself that gives me a stange feeling because of not being rotated...

I see, it is the orientation of the actual pointer that you don't like.

I have done a pointer and busy-bee one which I will probably get around to uploading to OS4 Depot one day.

<rant>
Not now as I am still stuck with dialup thanks to our wonderful telecomms company BT ruining my line and ADSL connection over four weeks ago. They still have not fixed it, BT are the one company in the world that are even worse than Microsoft

</rant>

Bill.

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Re: OS4 Final mouse pointer size

Posted on: 2007/1/12 17:50 #538

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@abalaban

I am using a PNG 32 bit type pointer now.

Check the file envarc:sysdef_pointer.info

There should be two tooltypes, XOFFSET and YOFFSET which give the offset valuse that may be needed in an image to accurately place the pointer active spot. If these are missing the values will default to 0 which may not be correct.

Bill