How to format/use a CF card with WinUAE for use in an A1200?

[mingle]

Hi all,

While I'm on a roll, I thought I'd ask another question in relation to my new A1200:

I'm thinking of using a CF card to replace my internal HDD and wonder if it's possible to prepare the card (ie: load my old A1200 partitions or something like AmigaSYS) using WinUAE or some other PC-based utility, before plugging it into the A1200...

Is it possible?

If so, are there any FAQs or tutorials to help me out

All help and comments appreciated!

Cheers,

Mike.

[mingle]

Hi Lloyd,

Thanks for the info... I've had limited success...

I'm using Amiga Forever 2008 (running the "Workbench 3.x" setup under the "System" tab). I can add the CF card in the "Add Harddrive" section of the WinUAE configuration (are there any otehr setting apart from read/write that I need to change?)

However when I start the emulation and run HDToolBox, I can't see any hard drives added...

I've got the CF card connected to my PC via a USB multi-card reader - could that be the problem? Do I have to connect it directly to the IDE interface of my PC?

Cheers,

Mike.

[mingle]

Hi Lloyd,

Woo-Hoo! It worked! HDToolBox was set up with the ASKDEVICE tooltype option, which for some reason didn't display the uaehf device...

Anyway, it seems to have worked! I don't have my A1200 to try it with yet but that's for next week...

By the way, I tried with AmiKit 1.5.1 this time and it worked fine...

Thanks again for your help! :-)

Cheers,

Mike.

[mingle]

Ha Ha!

I spoke too soon!

After the install and partitioning, I 'rebooted' WinUAE, and I can see the icon for the newly partitoned CF card - it's labeled as "MDH0:2*", but I can't format it...

All actions for the icon are greyed-out and when I double-click, nothing happens either...

Maybe I'll give AmigaForever another go...

Cheers,

Mike.

[mingle]

Cool...

I just ran WinUAE with my old WB3.0 setup and I was able to format the CF card without any issues...

:-)

Mike.

[mingle]

Hi Lloyd,

You're right: WinUAE is simply awesome...

I installed WB3.1 on the CF card by 'booting' from the WB3.1 floppies in WinUAE and all went well,

I think I must've done something wrong, as I can't boot from the disk, but it shows up if I boot from other drives...

In WinUAE (under the "Hard drives" tab) it's showing up without a volume name...

Is there any way to make a hard drive bootable without having to wipe it?

Cheers,

Mike.

[mingle]

Hi again (thanks muchly for your time on this!)

I tried again and definitely made it bootable, and the boot-prioroty was set to "0"

Bingo! I now have a fully working 8MB CF card!

This is a test-run for when I get a 4GB card fro my A1200...

I've leaned a lot and it's been a great help, thanks again!

Cheers,

Mike.