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- Ami-FileSafe V2.4 Pro
- =====================
-
- Please read the release notes at the bottom of this file.
-
- Copyright and disclamer notice
- ==============================
-
- Ami-FileSafe (AFS) software and documentation is copyright Fourth Level
- Developments 1995/1996, All Rights Reserved.
-
- No part of the software or the documentation my be reproduced, transcribed,
- stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language or transmitted
- in any form without the express written consent of Fourth Level
- Developments.
-
- Fourth Level Developments shall not be liable for errors contained in the
- software, hardware and/or documentation or for incidental or consequential
- damage in connection with the furnishing, performance or use of the
- software, hardware,firmware and/or the documentation.
-
- Fourth Level Developments reserve the right to revise and make changes to
- the software and/or documentation from time to time without obligation to
- notify any person of such changes.
-
- This software is provided as a single machine licence and one copy of the
- software must be purchased for every machine that the software is to
- control.
-
- Release notes
- =============
-
- 15-May-96
-
- The current revision of Ami-FileSafe is 16.15
-
-
- Compatibility
- -------------
-
- We have made every attempt to make AFS compatible with the vast majority of
- Amiga software, but unfortunatley some software will still not function
- correctly with AFS. This is mainly due to software which is not programmed in
- an OS-Legal mannor.
-
- A few common programs that do not function under AFS are:-
-
- DiskExpander
- DiskSalv 2/3 (DiskSalv 4 AFS is now available from FLD)
- Reorg
- Quarterback Tools (The backup section will function, but the tools do not)
- A few games. (Due to copy protection/non-os-legal code)
-
-
- AFS Direct SCSI
- ---------------
-
- AFS now includes a direct SCSI version for extra performance. This can be
- installed by clicking on install_2.0_020ds or install_3.0_020ds depending
- on your operating system version.
-
- You can use the direct SCSI version of AFS on most SCSI and IDE controllers,
- however some will not function correct and in which case you should revert
- to the standard version of AFS. This can be done by following the updates
- procedure in the manual (Select the normal instead of the direct SCSI version
- of AFS when you click on the install icon on the floppy disk).
-
- AFSls
- -----
-
- AFS now includes its own directory command called 'afsls' which is installed
- into your c: directory. Users of the unix ls command should find the options
- very similar. To get help on afsls type 'afsls -help' at the cli prompt.
-
- Rollover Logfiles
- -----------------
-
- The Major new feature in this version of AFS is rollover logfiles. They
- are intended to resolve the age old problem of managing your logfiles.
-
- Under the normal system every time you add an entry to a logfile, it is
- appended to the end of a file, and the file gets bigger. This causes 2
- major problems:
-
- a) You have to either shorten or delete the logfile every so often to
- reduce it's size and save your disk space.
-
- b) The logfile gets very fragmented because when the file is extended
- past the end of a sector a new blank sector needs to be allocated. By
- this time the new sector on the disk will have already been used, and so
- (in general) logfiles are split up over a wide area of the hard drive.
-
- To tackle these problems we introduce to concept of a roll over logfile.
- Using a program call 'MakeRollOver' you can create a new logfile. When it
- is created you should choose how many disks blocks (1 block=512 bytes)
- you wish to allocate to the logfile.
-
- The size you specify will be allocated from the disk immediatley, but the
- logfile will initally show up as 0 bytes log. As data is appended to the
- logfile it will grow in size until it reaches the size you allocated for
- the logfile. After this point data will still be appended to the end of
- logfile, but the file will not get any bigger. This is achieved by AFS
- removing the oldest log entries from the start of the file.
-
- Using this method your logfiles will not be fragmented any more than is
- needed to allocate the correct number of blocks when you created the file.
-
- To use this feature a program called 'MakeRollOver' is provided. To create
- a rollover logfile you should type (from the shell):-
-
- MakeRollOver <filename> <blocks>
-
- Where <filename> is the name of the rollover logfile to create and blocks
- is the number of 512 byte blocks to allocate for the file. For example:-
-
- MakeRollOver mylog 20
-
- Would allocate 10K for a file called mylog. The size of mylog will start out
- at 0 bytes long and extend upto 10K, after that it will stay at 10K and only
- the most recently appended data is stored in the file.
-
-
- FFS2AFS Converter
- -----------------
-
- See the "FFS2AFS" file for details.
-
- MaxTransfer
- -----------
-
- Due to a bug in the OS format command, we suggest that if you set your
- maxtransfer according to the manual, you use 0xf000 instead of 0xffff.
-
- Un-delete
- ---------
-
- AFS now includes an un-delete feature. Located off the root is a subdirectory
- called ".deldir". It stores the last 31 deleted files. To list the currently
- valid deleted files (from cli) type:
-
- list :.deldir
-
- You will notice the filenames have a number called a "slot number" appended
- after them to prevent duplicate file names.
-
- To undelete a file simply copy it from the .deldir onto another drive e.g:-
-
- copy :.deldir/NewsBatch@022 ram:
-
- Will un-delete the NewBatch@022 file and store it in ram disk.
-
- N.B. While it is possible to un-delete files onto the same volume, if you do
- this you may overwrite the file you are trying to un-delete.
-
- RemoveDirEntry
- --------------
-
- *** WARNING ***
-
- You should not use this tool without consulting with support first.
-
- In the tools directory on your AFS install disk is a program called:
-
- RemoveDirEntry
-
- This program _forcefully_ removes a file or directory from an AFS partition.
-
- * It does _not_ free up the space allocated by the file/directory.
-
- * The file/directory will not go into the .deldir.
-
- * If you remove a directory _all_ the files in this directory and any
- sub-directories will be lost forever.
-
- It should only be used in the unlikely circumstance that you have a corrupted
- files or directory which can not be removed by any other means.
-
- The only time this tool should be of any use is:
-
- a) If there has been some physical corruption of the hard drive (Bad blocks).
-
- b) You have incorrectly set your maxtransfer or DMA Mask and in so doing
- caused a disk error.
-
- c) Extreme memory corruption of a file or directory header at the time you
- were writing to disk.
-
- When checking with technical support prior to using this tool please have the
- following information ready:-
-
- a) An output from "showconfig" (Type "showconfig" in any shell).
-
- b) Your current AFS version (Type version "L:HardDiskAFS" in any shell).
-
- c) Your MaxTransfer and DMA Mask setting (From HDToolBox).
-
- d) Details of your system configuration (Hardware and software).
-
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- If you have an older version of HDToolBox (WB2 and older WB3.0) then when
- you try to add a new Ami-FileSafe partition you will find there is not a
- AFS\1 option.
-
- If this is the case then click on "Custom File System" and then type into
- the "Identifier" field "0x41465301". The rest of the installation procedure
- is the same.
-
- DiskSpare and MultiFileSystem
- -----------------------------
-
- If you are using DiskSpare with the floppy version Ami-FileSafe then do not
- try to use MultiFileSystem at the same time. This problem should be cured
- in the next release.
-
- Softkicked machines (A3000 etc.)
- -------------------------------
-
- See the SoftKick_Readme file for details.
-
-
- Contacts
- ========
-
- Tel: 0117 985 4455
- Fax: 0117 955 9157
- Email: afssales@flevel.demon.co.uk
-
- Mail: Ami-FileSafe Sales/Support
- Fourth Level Developments
- 31, Ashley Hill
- Montpelier
- Bristol
- BS6 5JA
-