Creating a working hdf

[amyren]

I was kind of frustrated over this myself, constantly failing to get a working hdf file for use in A600GS.
Any new hdf I created gave me errors, like 'Not a DOS disk in drive HD0'
Older hdf's I had lying around did work, so I could reuse them, but being limited to one HDD only I wanted a bigger drive.
Turned out it was caused by the system I used in WinUAE to format the new drive that caused this. Both my Amikit and my old A4000 winuae setup are based on OS3.9 and after formatting the disk there simply didnt work even if I selcted FFS as the filesystem when formatting.

Setting up  a WB3.1 environment in WinUAE and then I was able to format a 2 GB hdf file and now got it working in A600GS

[amyren]

Looks like I was celebrating to soon. I got that 2GB hdf working at first, as a WB3.1 setup. But a closer look into it show that under AmiBerry it reports disk space as 1GB.
And when copying the 3.9 workbench stuff into the hdf (in WinUAE) and use A600GS it will again say its not a DOS disk in device HD0.

Did you get any hdf's bigger than 1GB to work?

[amyren]

I have a 1.8GB OS3.22 working, created in Winuae then added latest roms and added the hdf as a 1200 using JIT and 8GB Ram
The free space shows as 1.8GB I just wish that I could have 2 drives System and Work

For the hdf, you created it in WinUAE as 1800MB? Then in what OS version was it formatted? Did you tick any options like FFS or International Mode, and did you use Quick Format or Full format?
Maybe not all these details should matter, but I just wat to try to replicate that as close as possible since it worked for you.
You transfer the hdf to A600GS using a USB stick? FAT32?

For OS3.2 I guess you use the 3.1 ROM and softkick it with loadmodule? My 3.2 (winuae) installation does not work with ROM3.1. I guess this is because it was installed with using the 3.2 rom, so the loadmodules are not installed on my system.
I will try to set it up agaion with the 3.1 rom in WinUAE then.