Questions about Amithlon and AmigaOS XL

[wobbly]

Whoaa! Thankfully I asked and you replied!

Thanks for the heads up!


But, I guess its okay if I have no Windows hard drives attached I can just plug-in the Amiga hard drives without worry..

[jlariv8957]

Hi,

I succeded in reading,writing and formating amiga drive on PC.


You must not write the signature when windows ask it and that's all!

The disk is recognised in Winuae and in the amiga
I used this way because i had problems in my A3000 with the scsi card so i had to often reinstall AmigaOS 3.9

[wobbly]

Thanks for that, good to hear it works.

I'm going to try it with just the amiga hard drives and no pc drives installed..

[AmigaEd]

@Wobbly

Please let us know how it goes.

Thanks,
AmigaEd

[bloodline]

Mark wrote:

wobbly wrote:
Sorry to bring up an old thread.

Am I risking anything [beyond normal reason - afterall, my Amiga hard drives must be >10 years old..] - namely my data on my hard drives - if i connect them up to a pc, one that i intend to run Amithlon on?

I guess i'm asking if is it safe to plug in my Amiga hard drives!

Absolutely not, if you also use Windows.  Apparently, Windows writes to the first block of any disk drive it doesn't understand.  This damages the RDB of an Amiga formatted drive so it can't be read by a real Amiga anymore.  The problem is discussed here,

This is only true for the Win95/98/ME versions of Windows. If you use XP or 2K you will be fine.

Just slave your Amiga drive to the PC boot drive and then load up WinUAE (there is an option to find Amiga Disks). You can then copy the data over to your UAE system or, like me, to the WinUAE file system HD emulation.

[wobbly]

Well, i set aside a machine just for qnx and amigaxl.

both installed quickly and with no problems.

that was for qnx rtp 6.1

i'm trying 6.3.0 now and see if its got updates that allows the amiga side to use more stuff
[i also installed qnx/amigaxl on my dell laptop but the sound and ethernet parts are not recognised by qnx, so i'm guessing 6.3.0 has improved/updated drivers that allow it to use these..]

[walter]

@wobbly

...
that was for qnx rtp 6.1

i'm trying 6.3.0 now and see if its got updates that allows the amiga side to use more stuff

For me, amigaxl stopped working sometime after 6.1 (6.1.2?).  It certainly
didn't work for me on 6.2.  Good luck!

I bought the package for XL, but Amithlon worked better for me and was better and
longer supported (by Bernie, of course).  I am still using Amithlon as my main
machine.  However, in my limited use, I was also very impressed with QNX.

[wobbly]

heh.. someone on another thread - or forum - reported that AmigaXL worked with 6.3.0

at the moment, although i am impressed with 6.3.0 [it seems very nice] - i cannot install AmigaXL!

i'm missing a shared library and it cant find it..

:-(

might have to go with 6.1 on another partition perhaps..

i'm thinking about trying Amithlon on the same computer..

 :-)

i'm mainly trying 6.3.0 because i wanted to run this on my dell laptop, which under qnx 6.1 doesnt recognise a few things [sound, network, etc]


edit:

okay, went back to 6.1 on the desktop - at least i'll have my amiga on that - i'll try amithlon again at a later date.

edit2:

hmmm. 6.3.0 didnt pick up the laptop hardware either..

heh.. oh well..