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All three show readerrors, and are buggy, freezing often on mouse or keyboard manipulation.
I think forget about block sizes, as they should NOT cause such problems, and they clearly didn't help anyway.
Stick to 512 block size for the moment, since it's the standard & works with all filing systems (even though MediaToolbox strangely does not default to this).
The suggestion to try using your Sam460's internal SATA port is an excellent idea, although by this point we are grasping at straws a bit.
By the way, what is the MaxTransfer & Mask of your partitions set to? OS4 *may* be more forgiving than Classic Amigas, but I believe the following is still the best settings:
MaxTransfer = 7FFFFFFF
Mask = FFFFFFFE
(Problems with both of these could theoretically cause the problems you have, although I have never heard of them causing problems on real OS4 machines, so again grasping at straws here.)
I would stick to either FFS (slow but extremely robust) or SFS (fast & still pretty robust), as they are both heavily tested.
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On the OS4.1FE DVD i remember there is a "OS4-filesystems.pdf" that gives guidance on blocksize & filesystems.
Copying & pasting probably won't work well with tables, but I think the most important point from it is do NOT use partition sizes above 128GB with SFS\00.
Since we have basically run out of ideas, and you do not seem able to try a different model of HD,
I am going to strongly suggest you check the drive's SMART statistics. While there is an Amiga utility for doing this, it would probably be easier to just use a Windows utility, of which I suggest:
https://www.acronis.com/en-gb/homecomputing/download/drive-monitor/ (this link circumvents the registration process, so I will remove it soon)
or
http://www.hdtune.com/files/hdtune_255.exe (which is linked to from
http://www.hdtune.com/download.html )
Acronis Drive Monitor is (probably) the easier to use, as it gives a % health of your drive, in addition to the raw SMART statistics. If it shows anything less than 100% on your new drive, then it is faulty & you have strong proof that it should be replaced. (It does however also warn you that your drives are NOT backed-up by Acronis's backup utility, so you will probably want to uninstall it later.)
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