a500 ide, compact flash, crossdos, winuae, HELP!@#

[MozzerFan]

kamiga wrote:

... although WINUAE sees the disk, I get a "Warning: The drive safety check is active.  Selected drive is not empty and non-RDB partitioned" message.

- Start winuae with the disableharddrivesafetycheck option ,for example
"C:\Program Files\Cloanto\Amiga Forever\Emulation\WinUAE\winuae.exe" -disableharddrivesafetycheck

- Load your config and goto the harddrive section and choose addharddrive. Select the cf card. Don't forget to select the read/write option.

[MozzerFan]

Are you sure when you prepped the CF card, the filesystem was put in the RDB?
If not, you would have to use a mountfile to mount the card and see the partitions.

[MozzerFan]

Each harddisk has it's own RDB.

By entering the device and unit number, the prep utility should know which disk to use.