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Massive release 1.24

   Author:       Gilles Pelletier
   Uploader:     gilles pelletier live fr (Gilles Pelletier)
   Type:         driver/other
   Version:      1.24 (23-Apr-2024)
   Requires:     ANAIIS / Thylacine-1.3
   Architecture: m68k-amigaos
   Date:         2024-04-23
   Readme:       http://aminet.net/driver/other/anaiis_massive.readme
   Downloads:    1906

http://aminet.net/driver/other/anaiis_massive.lha

Take (8,6,80) MassStorage (SCSI) or (8,2,80) MassStorage (CD/DVD) interfaces

into account, others are ignored.

WARNING: Massive is experimental !!

MIND YOUR DATA, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR DATA !

You must have copied all your important data in a safe place and read

carefully the following before start.

Install

~~~~~~~

copy usbscsi.device into DEVS:

copy massive where you want (assign and mount should be present in C: for KS1.2)

Install fat95 (see on aminet, simply copy fat95 into l:)

Install ANAIIS (sure it's already done) or Thylacine-1.3

How to test

~~~~~~~~~~~

Launch usbstart (or usbstart is launched in the startup-sequence)

Plug the usb thumb or disk device in a port (highway, subway...)

Launch Massive from the Workbench

If the following icon entry is set, the user has nothing else to do.

MOUNT=true

UNMOUNT=true

Warning, this part will take a while (30 seconds to 5 minutes, certainly

depending on the size of the key, and the disk state (validating...))

If you have 2 or more keys, launch massive twice or more ;)

The disk icon should appear on the workbench.

Into the massive icon you can set

READWRITE=TRUE to make Read/write, by default you can't write to avoid

mistakes.

be carefull with usb thumbs, write number are limited, let this

to false.

MOUNT=TRUE mount the key automaticaly (KS 3.1 only).

MOUNT=ALL mount all partitions known from the RDB (KS 3.1 only)

UNMOUNT=TRUE the device is automatically removed from the system (KS 3.1

only)

- if the stack stops.

- if the user closes Massive window.

- if the user unplugs the stick (key, thumb, disk...)

MOUNT=OLD same as TRUE, but force the mountlist in 1.x syntax.

MOUNT=OLDALL same as ALL, but force the mountlist in 1.x syntax.

these token are usefull in multiboot, where mount command still

1.x for compatibility.

BUFFERS=200 set the number of buffers (use memory as disk cache to speed up)

MASK=0xffffffff

MAXTRANSFER=0x0001fe00

BLOCKSIZE=512

FILESYSTEM=l:fat95 (fat95 or fastfilesystem is guessed by reading block 0)

DOSTYPE=0x (force the dostype, useful if we want to change the file system)

COMMANDCLASS=10 (don't use it) command class (6, 10, 12, 16)

DELAY=1 (don't use it) delay between CBW, DATA and CSW

TRACE=FALSE (don't use this, it's very slow)

(TRACE=TRUE (trace only prolog), TRACE=FULL (trace all access very slow))

(TRACE=LOG (trace all in RAM:massive.log))

PRODUCT= can identify a device by its product id

VENDOR= can identify a device by the vendor

PRI=1 set pri to 1 freeze mouse but increase transfer rate

WAIT=10 wait 10 seconds before start, if you want to autoboot.

SCSICMDS=TRUE force scsi commands instead AmigaDOS commands.

WINDOW=FALSE no window (default)

WINDOW=TRUE show anoying window with errors.

WINDOW=SPLASH window during booting and mounting.

NOEXPANSION use the c:mount command

launch massive within a shell

run >NIL: massive MOUNT UNMOUNT

and the command arguments

MOUNT to mount

MOUNTALL to mount all partitions known from the RDB.

MOUNTOLD same as MOUNT, for 1.x mount command.

MOUNTOLDALL same as MOUNTALL, for 1.x mount command.

UNMOUNT to unmount

READWRITE to make Read/write, by default you can't write to avoid

mistakes.

be carefull with usb thumbs, write number are limited, let this

to false.

BUFFERS=200 set the number of buffers (use memory as disk cache to speed up)

MASK=0xffffffff

MAXTRANSFER=0x0001fe00

BLOCKSIZE=512

FILESYSTEM=l:fat95 (fat95 or fastfilesystem is guessed by reading the block 0)

DOSTYPE=0x (force the dostype, useful if we want to change the file system)

COMMANDCLASS=10 (don't use it) set command class (6, 10, 12, 16)

DELAY=1 (don't use it) set delay between CBW, DATA and CSW

TRACE

FULLTRACE

LOG

PRODUCT= can identify a device by its product id

VENDOR= can identify a device by the vendor

MAXTRANSFER= set the maxtransfer

MASK= set the address mask (ANAIIS is not DMA... so this is not very

useful)

PRI=1 set pri to 1 freeze mouse but increase transfer rate (other

values invokes the guru)

WAIT=10 wait 10 seconds before start.

SCSICMDS force scsi commands instead AmigaDOS commands.

WINDOW show anoying window with errors.

SPLASHWINDOW window during booting and mounting.

SPLASH the same as SPLASHWINDOW.

NOEXPANSION use the c:mount command

Format a unformatted volume or change the filesystem

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Add parathesis on MOUNT property or omit the MOUNT key in the command line.

Edit the file ram:usbkey0

Change FileSystem and DosType entries (see "FileSystems" paragraph below)

Use the mount command to mount the volume

mount device usbkey0: from ram:usbkey0

Then you can format the volume with the quick option

format drive usbkey0: name "my usb volume" quick

Warning, without the quick option, the format may take some hours or damage

the device.

Note: units are mumbered as they come from usb enumeration begins with 0, 1...

Partition managment

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Refer to HDToolBox (may crash) or HDInstTools (PFS3 package) documentation.

FileSystems

~~~~~~~~~~~

FileSystem DosType Notes

<none> 0x444f5300 FFS/0 ok (crash on 1.3)

FastFileSystem 0x444f5301 FFS/1 ok (work also on 1.3)

fat95 0x46415401 FAT/1 ok (work also on 1.3)

CrossDOSFileSystem 0x4d534800 MSH/0 (3.0 and upper)

CrossDOSFileSystem 0x4d534400 MDH/0 (3.0 and upper, superfloppy)

PFS3 0x50465301 PFS/1 ok (2.04 and upper, work also on 1.3,

pfs3aio.lha http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/pfs3aio)

AmiCDFS 0x43444653 CDFS

CDFileSystem 0x43443031 CD01

Tested with:

4MB Olympus, memory card

256MB SanDisk, thumb (green key)

256MB USB BAR (silver key)

2GB Noname, thumb (silver key)

8GB HP v165w (marine blue key) very slow but working

120GB (PFS3)

4GB GData, thumb (white key)

4GB Verbatim, thumb (blue key)

Tips

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FAT95 needs to have a PRI=0, and SCSICMDS=TRUE options to work correctly.

Prefers PFS3 to FFS for partition size > 1GB.

Use HDInstTools instead of HDToolBox for partitioning.

Invalidate partitions you won't use. It takes a lot of memory for buffers.

Even games are usable with usbscsi.device. The Settlers, Civilization,

Indy4 (and the fate of Atlantis) and a lot of harddisk installable games

are working fine !

Troubleshootings

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Verify usbscsi.device access with DumpX tool

In the icon, you should get the following entries

DEVICENAME=usbscsi.device

UNIT=0

TD64=TRUE for 64 bits trackdisk (et oui!!)

TD64=FALSE to return to prehistoric.

Note about the file ram:usbkey0

It contain all partition entries if the device has been prepared with

HDInstTools

If not done automaticaly, you should the mount command

mount device usbkey0: from ram:usbkey0

To remove the device manually you can use the unmount command (works also with

WB1.3)

unmount usbkey0:

If there are more than one device, mountlist files are numbered usbkey1, usbkey2

and so on

Known bugs

~~~~~~~~~~

- Workbench (< 3.1.4) can't copy huge files.

- Disk size are wrong, the only good info is the number of blocks (not my fault)

- problems during thumb formatting or writing (set DELAY to 2... don't know why)

- Some disks must have a maxtransfer=4096

- Use PFS3 for 1.3 instead for 3.1... (i.e. pfsaio)

- OFS and FFS doesn't know action_die (but Massive is able to kill them)

Enjoy file copy and partitioning fun between true life and Amiga World!

Contents of driver/other/anaiis_massive.lha

PERMISSION  UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP     NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ ----------
[unknown]                 3275    7983  41.0% -lh5- ec2e Apr 23 21:07 Anaiis_massive/anaiis_scsi.readme
[unknown]                 7589   11600  65.4% -lh5- f275 Dec 27  2018 Anaiis_massive/info_13
[unknown]                26288   51172  51.4% -lh5- ae54 Apr 23 20:51 Anaiis_massive/massive
[unknown]                  302     900  33.6% -lh5- aaa6 Apr 14 13:18 Anaiis_massive/massive.info
[unknown]                 6068    9500  63.9% -lh5- f1bd Feb 12 15:39 Anaiis_massive/unmount
[unknown]                 3364    5536  60.8% -lh5- 5a5d Apr 21 22:04 Anaiis_massive/usbscsi.device
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ ----------
 Total         6 files   46886   86691  54.1%            Apr 24 02:52