Format Compact Flash with winuae

[Snoozy]

Hi, i am looking to change my max transder rate to 0x1FE00 to ensure the CF card works appropriately. So i am in Winuae - whenever i try to change this in the partition/advance options menu i change "Max transfer box" to 0x1FE00 and then click ok but it never seems to save and defaults to its original setting...grrr...how do i do this?
 
The CF card has been freshly formatted and once i've done this i aim to reinstall wb.
 
Can someone please advise?

[Snoozy]

Hi bbond007, thanks for your help.
 
why 1fe00 rather than 0x1fe00?
 
Is it ok to use lower case aswell?

[Snoozy]

I cleared and formatted my cf to do this but out of interest would have it been possible to change the max transfer rate with wb and files still on the cf?

[Snoozy]

Just to update, changing the max transfer rate appears to have sorted my whdload probs.
 
So it wasn't whdload 17.0 after all, thankfully i don't have to mess around with lxz extraction commands to extract whdload 16.9 lha. I think this has been to the benefit of my blood pressure

[Snoozy]

Hi,

I'm just looking to set up a 4gb trasncend cf hd. I'm using winuae 2.3.3 (run as admin) and i've added system hdf to load up wb. From there i add my cf card which shows up as 3.7G size. When i enter HD toolbox to partition the drive, i cannot get it recognised as a 4gb drive. Instead it shows up as 2gb, so i try and define new drive and read configuration,.. and it tells me "Drive does not support SCSI inquiry command"

How do i deal with this :confused:

[Snoozy]

Thanks for your help thomas, i will try again later on.

How large should i make the system partition for classic wb? 150mb?

[Snoozy]

Hi ppl,

Nealry sorted with this now. I have partitioned the drive (250mb for classic wb) and 2 other partitions and set the max transfer rate.

When i come to save the drives and exit it gives me an "error 28 on write"

What went wrong?

(I have set the drive to read/write and uae ...and set uaehf.device)

[Snoozy]

Ok, thanks i've got as far as workbench classic loading up. Then i have system as one partition and 2 others which are ndos, so if i quick format they end up being 100% full ?

How do i configure the partitions on wb?

[Snoozy]

Thanks for your help thomas, i think i've done this now. I have the system partition and 2 other partitions of 1.8gb.

Will this save in this state automatically now? Do i need to copy system hdf via dopus? Or have i finished?

[Snoozy]

I am not sure what you are asking for. After being formatted a partition is empty. If you want it to contain some files, you need to copy the files from somewhere. If you want to run ClassicWB on your Amiga, you need to copy the ClassicWB files from the system HDF to the real HDD or CF card.

Thanks, so I'm still winuae wb and it all looks partitioned correctly. So now I just copy systemhdf into my system partition on the cf? (via dopus)

The reason I'm confused is that when I'm in winuae and double click my system (bootable) partition, it already looks like it has all the wb files in it! But is this because we are still in winuae? And if I stopped at this point + inserted into ide 1200 it wouldn't boot?

Once I've copied the system hdf onto cf, will it also save and remember my other 2 partitions?

[Snoozy]

Got it thanks thomas, am sure you're one of the most helpful experts here..