Cannot prepare Amiga HD with WinUAE

[Colani1200]

Hi all,

I'm trying to partition / prepare a 2.5" harddisk for my A 1200D in WinUAE. The drive is connected to a Windows XP laptop with an USB to IDE adaptor and completely empty (no partition table whatsoever). Nevertheless WinUAE claims "no hard disks detected that were either empty or RDB-partitioned" and refuses to use it. Any ideas?

[Colani1200]

Birkwood wrote:

I believe it only works with SCSI drives.

Somebody in a german forum claims to have it working with USB->IDE.  :-?

[Colani1200]

Great, thanks for the link, lopos! If I understand that correctly, E-UAE is also capable of natively using Amiga hard disks? That would be even better because I wouldn't have to use that crappy Windows...  :-P

[Colani1200]

Didn't have much luck with it yet, I'm afraid. Tried both XP with WinUAE and FreeBSD with e-uae.

winuae.exe -disableharddrivesafetycheck sees the harddrive now and I can use it. HDinsttools recognizes the drive correctly, but I am not able to partition or format it. Changes don't seem to be saved, I can't even add Smartfilesystem to it (yes, the drive is set to r/w in WinUAE).

e-uae 0.8.28 shows the drive on the desktop although there is no partition on it yet. HDtoolbox which comes with OS 3.9 doesn't find any drive at all. (What's also strange: I also seem to be unable to mount the hardfile of ClassicWB with it. The drive icon is there, but it seems to be empty).  :-?  :-(