WinUAE Problem!

[jiffydos]

Hey All,

I installed the newest WinUAE on my windows XP box.  I took my old hard drive out of my 3.1Rom based A2000, copied the kickstart from it... and away I go.

It worked awesome.

Now I am trying to copy data off the old SCSI hard drive to either a new hard drive or hard disk file.  Since WinUAE doesn't support partitioning an actual new drive, and I don't want to do it on my amiga, I chose hard files.  They should be easier to work with anyhow.

Problem...

I have everything configured as I feel I should, I go to the "hard drives" section under the hardware configuration.  I have my actual physical hard drive listed and working correctly.  I created a new hard disk file of 4GB and configured that too.

When I booted up and formatted it, it formated at 1GB.

Figuring this was some sort of wierd limitation, I made another hard file of 1GB and went to format that.  But, that doesn't show up at all in Amigados 'info' command, even though it shows up in the kickstart menu.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

Dave

[Louis Dias]

I'll take a quick guess and say it's a Windows impose limit on files opened by certain programs...

[adolescent]

jiffydos wrote:

Since WinUAE doesn't support partitioning an actual new drive

Sure it does, this is how I setup the drive for my A4000 and A600.  On a new drive (or one previously used in Windows) you may need to use the command line switch to disable the safety check, but it will work.

For the hardfile, what options did you use?  Filesystem, bootpri, RDB mode, etc.

[tomfin]

Hey all,


As lou_dias said, sometimes there can be a limit imposed on files by windows.  If your hard disk is formatted as FAT32, you will hit problems as files go over the FAT32 1gb limit.  If this is the case, and if possible, convert your drive to NTFS for many GBs of uninterrupted file-on-file action.  Use the windows command prompt and 'convert' command, your system will probably have to perform the conversion at restart...

Is it worth mentioning that such a large hard file may be quite slow to access, or did we already come to and burn that bridge in WinUAE?  As far as I can recall, 4gb is also the maximum size the AmigaOS can handle.

Hope that helps.

Tom


EDIT:  @adolescent; Absolutely right, FAT32 has a 4gb limit, not 1gb.  I seemed to have pulled that figure from under my chair - excuse me, presumably I'm confusing it with something else.  Should have noticed from the post that XP is involved, which is NTFS most of the way.

Edited to avoid bumping the thread - sorry no solution in my post!

[adolescent]

@tomfin

The maximum file size for FAT32 is 4GB.  This shouldn't have anything to do with the file size itself.  It's probably a geometry issue with the HDF, filesystem, partitioning, etc.