Hi all!

I have an old backup (around 2 gb) on my fileserver that I am trying to copy back to my amiga over ftp.

Setup as follows:
A1200 with KS/WB 3.1 030 w/16 Mb ram 8GB CF with pfs3ds, 3c589 network and roadshow.
I am using ncftp in cli.

It transfers great for a long time, but suddently it stoped with ram disk full.
How is this?
Does it store the file in ram when downloading until it writes to disk, so that a single >15mb file can fail it?
Have not experimented with this yet (just noticed the problem this morning after the amiga has been copying over night).

Any suggestions?


And while were at it, I have anoter quick question.
Have a pcmcia->cf adapter that works great with fat95, but how can I get it to read ffs of pfs formated cf cards?

Last edited by SydneyBloom on 18-Apr-2013 at 07:33 AM.

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@SydneyBloom

Maybe it transfers faster over the network than it can save to disk, and maybe RoadShow or your FTP server/client buffers data until it runs out of memory? There should be a setting for this buffer. Also check if it writes a log file in RAM: that just keeps growing.

The CF adapter works on a lower level and ignores the file system so you should just be able to plug in your cards and it should mount automatically, or maybe you need to mount manually, depending how those CF cards work.

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@Deniil715

Thanks for your reply.
So it's not in the AOS standard behavour to always buffer to ram before writing to disk?
I use ncftp in cli since thats what I am used to from the linux world, and other "no-fuzz" ftp clients I have tried on the amiga does not work recursivly. Can anyone recomend a good and small ftp client?

Regarding the CF, if I take a CF card used as internal ide disk from one amiga and insert into the pcmcia adapter on another it's unable to read (not a valid disk). But I guess this has to do with multiple partitions on the card?

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@SydneyBloom

IIRC I used AmiFTP on my A1200. Something simple that could copy directories at least.

As for your CF card I have an adaptor for these and last time I looked it used a mountlist. So I'd say you'd have to locate it in DEVS:DOSDrivers (CF0?) and modify it for the file systems you want. Say CFS for SFS, CFF for FFS, CFP for PFS, etc. So copy the original and rename to something like the above then change the FileSystem entry to the one you want.

The only caveat is that you will have NDOS icons for the other devices where it has a different filesystem. Say CF0:NDOS if it isn't FAT.

ncftp does indeed log to ram: I just did not notice the iconless .ncftp folder. So that explains it.

@Hypex
Thanks a lot, this makes sense, I'll try it out.

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Maybe http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/nloadwb can be a solution for the ndos icons...

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