Using real Amiga HD with WinUAE

[Thomas]

I asked in another thread how I could have WinUAE recognize a new hard drive so I could partition and format it with an Amiga file system and use it exclusively for Amiga emulation.

I still have not figured out how to do it, but have progressed to assinging a volume letter and quick formatting the drive with NTFS, so WinUAE can see the drive.

That's the completely wrong way. As soon as Windows can see the drive, WinUAE refuses to use it. The drive has to be completely empty (no partition and no MBR) for WinUAE.

You can override this by running WinUAE with the -disableharddrivesafetycheck command line option.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

Does your BIOS recognise the drive ?

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

I think you didn't understand the question. He asked where the *drive* came from, not the case. If the drive comes from a non-standard HDD controller, it won't work with WinUAE, at least not automatically.

Bye,
Thomas