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Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion / Re: How to read SFS format CF card in macOS
« Last post by AmigaBruno on March 29, 2024, 12:27:13 PM »Unfortunately I don’t know with FS-UAE. In Win-UAE you can easily mount up a CF card with a Amiga RDB and boot up from it in the settings. I’ve done that a few times.
Worth having a look on the FS-UAE support page.
Unfortunately, this doesn't help me because I'm not running Windows. I don't want to run Windows again after all the nasty experiences I've had with it. I might try running Win-UAE under WINE on macOS, though. Windows won't run on Macs without some software called Bootcamp, because Macs don't have a PC type BIOS. Macs can boot up from Linux drives without any additional software, though. I also own a Raspberry Pi, so I could try reading my CF card on that under Linux using the same CF to USB card reader.
I tried to add the SFS formatted CF card as an HDD in FS-UAE, but it couldn't be detected. I think the key may be to define it by typing something somewhere in FS-UAE, but I don't know what to type or where.
I think a possible solution may be to buy another SSD and install Linux on it, then install FS-UAE and do what I need to do using a Mac. I think the problem is caused by Linux supporting every known format, but macOS not supporting them all.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_rigid_disk_block an SFS formatted disk does have an RDB. Of course, I've already checked the FS-UAE support page.