I've been having some serious Problems with SFS. Everything worked fine, then I started getting the 49152 error, and nothing that I tried sorted the problems:

I had 2 15gig partitions, one work:, the other data:
I managed to back up most of the information on to a FFS, then formatted the Drives.
Tried copying from one drive to the other via workbench. It worked to a point, then the errors started again.
Tried copying using the shell, doing a little bit at a time. Same thing happened
Tried with Diskmaster, yep, same problem.

Archived sections with Zip, copied to a memory stick, then unarchived 1st to Work:, then to Data: when it was established the archive would copy ok. Again the popped up.

Final solution, which appears to have worked, was to reduce the partition to 4gb, did a full format, and everything appears to have worked.

Question is, could anyone give a reason as to why?

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@listat
Maybe SFS is not detecting a 64-bit "Device API", and thus can only handle 32-bit (4GB) partitions? You can tell by using the SFSquery command on a device (not volume!) that is above the 4GB range.

e.g. C:SFSquery BigHD3:

You might need to create an SFS partition to test this.

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@ChrisH

taken from http://strohmayer.org/sfs/
...
1.245 (12.7.2005)
- SFS now refuses to format too large partitions and existing too large
partitions are mounted read-only. The current partition size limits
of SFS are:
64 GB with 512 bytes/block
128 GB with 1024 bytes/block
256 GB with 2048 bytes/block
512 GB with 4096 bytes/block
1 TB with 8192 bytes/block
2 TB with 16384 and 32768 bytes/block
Don't keep using old SFS versions because you have too large
partitions and want to continue using them, you WILL get errors on
such partitions sooner or later.
...

and latest SFS version is 1.265 (OS3) and V1.264 (OS4)

maybe some cable/connection fault? ¿ :-/

but as it's solved no problemo

BYE

@ChrisH

Quote:

e.g. C:SFSquery BigHD3:

Can you tell me where to get this command please? I have the latest (public) OS4 update, but I cannot seem to find it.

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@listat

SFSConfig is the replacement for SFSQuery SFSConfig

I have SFS working on an 80G drive (1 partition) & 4 77G partitions on a 400G drive. this is what SFSConfig shows on the 80G drive.

3.RAM Disk:> sfsconfig dh16:
SFSconfig information for dh16: (SFS version 1.267)
Start/end-offset: 0x00000000:00102000 - 0x00000012:A1F16000 bytes
Device API: NSD (64-bit)

If you don't get the last line, you may have an old drive.
What's your MaxTransfer & Mask settings? I use Maximum & Any Memory.



@jabirulo

OS4 final uses SFS v1.267, pre-installed. Partition size limits were also changed.

1.254 (4.3.2006)
- The limits mentioned in the 1.245 notes were wrong, sorry. The actual
partition size limit of SFS 1.x is 128 GB, no matter which blocksize
you are using. Changed the checks to the actual limits. You can
continue to use too large partitions, but you may get "disk full"
errors (instead of a trashed partition) even if there is still free
space on the partition.

The recommemended blocksize is still 512.

Last edited by sundown on 07-Feb-2007 at 10:21 PM.
Last edited by sundown on 07-Feb-2007 at 10:16 PM.

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@jabirulo
But his partitions were only 15GB in size - no-where near any size limit that SFS may have. FWIW, my largest partition is 18GB, albiet nowhere near full.

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