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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: 3246251196 on November 13, 2011, 06:53:57 PM

Title: 2.5" IDE HDD: Trying to Find it
Post by: 3246251196 on November 13, 2011, 06:53:57 PM

Hey guys,

I bought a 2.5"3.5" converter for my laptop hdd that I use in my Amiga.

I desperately need to get data from the EasyNet CD onto my laptop hdd so that I can install said software on my Amiga.

This is not strictly Amiga, but this is a good place to ask:

I run 2*150Gb WD RAID0 on my main system - which I am using to post this message. Now, I plug in the laptop HDD into the only IDE port on my motherboard and I am currently on Windows 7 x64; but, My Computer does not show up the HDD. However, Device Manager recognises this Toshiba HDD.

Also, I do have Ubuntu x32 on another partition, but the same thing is happening.

Any help would be great! I need to transfer some data to this 2.5" HDD so I can install EasyNet on my Amiga. Why won't it be recognised in Windows / Ubuntu? If it is because Windows cannot read such a format, then surely Ubuntu's FS would mount this HDD?

EDIT::::

Do I have to run WinUAE on my PC in order to understand this 2.5" HDD connected?

Title: Re: 2.5" IDE HDD: Trying to Find it
Post by: Jope on November 13, 2011, 07:02:24 PM

If the disk is Amiga formatted, it won't get auto-mounted, as Windows won't recognise the partition table and your Linux doesn't necessarily have a suitable filesystem available. Linux understands RDB partition tables and FFS filesystems, Ubuntu may include them as precompiled modules.

If it shows up in your device manager or /proc/partitions, then it's detected and you can attach it to WinUAE and read it inside the emulation or make an image of it with dd in Linux..

Title: Re: 2.5" IDE HDD: Trying to Find it
Post by: 3246251196 on November 13, 2011, 08:26:31 PM

Quote from: Jope;667720

If the disk is Amiga formatted, it won't get auto-mounted, as Windows won't recognise the partition table and your Linux doesn't necessarily have a suitable filesystem available. Linux understands RDB partition tables and FFS filesystems, Ubuntu may include them as precompiled modules.

If it shows up in your device manager or /proc/partitions, then it's detected and you can attach it to WinUAE and read it inside the emulation or make an image of it with dd in Linux..

Thankyou;
Solved.