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Title: Setup CF card with Winuae help
Post by: iowtheme on March 21, 2010, 06:15:37 PM: Hi All

I have a 64Mb CF Card,

Can I setup the Card on my PC first with Winuae? then put it in to my Amiga 1200 and will it boot.

I have Winuae v2.0,

Is there any GOOD Guide to show you how to do it,

thank all

:confused:
Title: Re: Setup CF card with Winuae help
Post by: tasmanian guy on March 21, 2010, 07:32:03 PM: Quote from: iowtheme;549022
Hi All

I have a 64Mb CF Card,

Can I setup the Card on my PC first with Winuae? then put it in to my Amiga 1200 and will it boot.

I have Winuae v2.0,

Is there any GOOD Guide to show you how to do it,

thank all

:confused:

Yes you can.

You have to make sure you add the hard drive, set it to drive ide0, enable read and write and boot up from Workbench install disk file which if I remember correctly is install.adf.

Create your first partition to be 4 gigabytes or less. Format it and then run the install.

To change the disks you press F12 key. (remember to reboot when prompted to as well).

I did this for my 1U Amiga 1200 and works great!
Title: Re: Setup CF card with Winuae help
Post by: ferix on March 21, 2010, 07:43:14 PM: Sure you can. I did It with my A600.
First of all, you have to edit your WinUAE shortcut. Add the modifier "-disableharddrivesafetycheck" following to the executable path. This modifier allows to the WinUAE to use the physical drives on your PC

Then, you have to create your configuration on UAE. You know, select 68020 processor, 24 bit adressing, and AGA chipset, and the Kickstart rom you own...
After this, go to the "Hard Drives" section, and click on the button that says "Add Hard Drive". It will show you a combo box with your local drives. Select the drive that represents your CF (probably an USB multi card reader), check the "Read/write" box, give It a name (HD0, for example) and click on Add Hardrive.
Now, save your configuration, and run WinUAE.

At this point, you have to partition and format your drive, so start the Workbench's Instalation disk from the floppy drive (the virtual one, of course).
Once It's loaded, you have to setup your disk before installing Workbench on It, so open the installation disk, go to the HDTools drawer, and select the HDToolbox.

Don't execute It now, just select the icon, and select "Information" on the "Icon" tab of the Workbench menu.
Now It opens an information window about the HDToolbox icon. Just under the "Comment" line, there is a box with the name "Tool types", and a text that says something like "SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=blah,blah,blah...". Select this line and It will be displayed on the box below. Modify the text to match this: "SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=uaehf.device", and click on Save.
This line tells to the HDTools program that It must use the embedded WinUAE's hard disk driver.
Now you can open the program, partitionate your disk (your CF), format It, and install Workbench on It.

Maybe I forgot something, but I wrote It from my memory...

Good luck.
Title: Re: Setup CF card with Winuae help
Post by: iowtheme on March 21, 2010, 07:44:23 PM: Hi there

In Winuae Add H/D

[OS] [62.6m,RW] Generic USB CF Reader 1.01

Set to IDE0

Read/Write is graded out

:confused:
Title: Re: Setup CF card with Winuae help
Post by: tasmanian guy on March 21, 2010, 07:58:57 PM: Quote from: iowtheme;549053
Hi there

In Winuae Add H/D

[OS] [62.6m,RW] Generic USB CF Reader 1.01

Set to IDE0

Read/Write is graded out

:confused:

Sorry I forgot about the -disable switch for winuae, see the other guy's post.

I didnt have to modify the hdtool box, as I used the ide0 option not the winuae option as hard drive type.
Title: Re: Setup CF card with Winuae help
Post by: iowtheme on March 21, 2010, 08:07:57 PM: In Winuae Add H/D

[MBR] [62.6m,RW] Generic USB CF Reader 1.01

Set to IDE0

and then set to Read/Write

and can not name CF card????

load up winuae with install.adf in df0 and no Hard drive ( NDD )

and no CF come up ???????
Title: Re: Setup CF card with Winuae help
Post by: tasmanian guy on March 21, 2010, 09:42:11 PM: You do not have to name the CF card.

So when you run the hdtoolbox you can see no device come up?
Title: Re: Setup CF card with Winuae help
Post by: iowtheme on March 21, 2010, 09:57:44 PM: device come up YES and i set it up

but i can not format CF it say not a DOS disk?????
Title: Re: Setup CF card with Winuae help
Post by: tasmanian guy on March 21, 2010, 10:19:15 PM: Quote from: iowtheme;549092
device come up YES and i set it up

but i can not format CF if say not a DOS disk?????

Are you formatting it under WINUAE in Workbench, I hope you're not doing a low level format.
Title: Re: Setup CF card with Winuae help
Post by: iowtheme on March 21, 2010, 10:24:36 PM: Workbench in winuae YES
Title: Re: Setup CF card with Winuae help
Post by: iowtheme on March 21, 2010, 11:44:00 PM: Now Format and up and running with WB 3.1 on 64mb CF Card.

Will Put it in to the Amiga then the CF adapter coming on Tue will TEST then.

Thank for all the help.

:afro:
Title: Re: Setup CF card with Winuae help
Post by: tasmanian guy on March 22, 2010, 12:01:00 AM: No worries, enjoy! I'm looking forward to my Amiga 1200 1U rack to be up and running (please let all the parts come this week!).