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WinUAE harddisk files troubles
« on: December 05, 2011, 08:25:58 PM »
Giving latest WinUAE a go, temporarily, and stumbled across a problem with the harddisk files. First off it doesn't seem to be able to work as a real harddisk as it's implied, because partitioning them allways end up in partitions the format command (in Workbench menus) can't format, it just doesn't do anything. Second even trying to format them normally without 1st partitioning them doesn't work, I'm only able to format 1 hardfile ?
Finally what does the RDB option do ? Does it build an RDB instantaneously within the hardfile ? Maybe that's why I'm having all these problems then, so I should only try to format it and not even recognize the disks with HDToolbox. But yet if I do so the disks simply don't appear in Workbench. Maybe I should set uaehf.device somewhere, like I do when launching HDToolbox, for them to appear but where ?
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Re: WinUAE harddisk files troubles
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2011, 01:39:33 AM »
Nice to see you still around here Thomas :)

The only way I managed to get the hardfiles recognized and formated by uaehf.device was adding one on WinUAE interface and then recogne (by reading drivers configuration) it with HDToolbox and partition. Then removing this 1st one and adding the others one by one. It just wouldn't accept formating the others (allways used QuickFormat) any other way, even attempted writing FFS to the Harddrives but the result was the same: absolutely no response after attempting QuickFormat, even a simple info on the drive's icon wouldn't show anything. The filesystem's are there in the RDB, cause I checked with HDToolbox again after.

Maybe the drives just need to be mounted, I though this was done automatically under 3.1 ?
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