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Title: WinUAE won't boot real drive when PC dir added
Post by: on March 03, 2007, 06:40:42 AM

Hi there all,
I need to transfer some large files between my PC and my A2000 so I took the 1GB SCSI drive in my 2000 and sucessfully managed to get WinUAE to boot from it. (I have an adaptec SCSI controller on my PC.

The problem that I have is when I want to add a directory from my PC to WinUAE's drives. If I do so when WinUAE is already booted, then I can't see it.

If I add it before WinUAE is booted then WinUAE will not boot from my 1 GB SCSI drive anymore.

Any suggestion is welcome.

Thank you all.

Title: Re: WinUAE won't boot real drive when PC dir added
Post by: melange on March 03, 2007, 06:28:32 PM

I'm fairly sure you have to add it before WinUAE is booted.  I think your problem is likely to be about the drives boot priority.  Your SCSI drive should already have the appropriate boot priority, what you want to do is change the boot priority of the Directory your adding on the PC.
I think the drive with the highest priority gets started first.
Assign your PC drive your adding a priority of -5 or -10 or something and try that out.
WinUAE will set the bootpri to 0 by default I believe.

Title: Re: WinUAE won't boot real drive when PC dir added
Post by: on March 03, 2007, 09:21:05 PM

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melange wrote:
Assign your PC drive your adding a priority of -5 or -10 or something and try that out.
WinUAE will set the bootpri to 0 by default I believe.

Well, sure enough a priority of -10 did exactly the right thing!

Mega thanx!

Title: Re: WinUAE won't boot real drive when PC dir added
Post by: melange on March 04, 2007, 08:20:45 AM

Groovy!  It's nice when I get it right  :-)