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?

[Birkwood]

I tried that too, with the same result.

I believe it only works with SCSI drives.

[Colani1200]

Birkwood wrote:

I believe it only works with SCSI drives.

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

[lopos]

It does work. Done it myself.
Have a look here Linky and follow the instructions.

[Legerdemain]

What most people seems to miss out on (something that is clearly stated in the docs) is to use the -disableharddrivesafetycheck argument. Otherwise the HD's won't show up in in the WinUAE GUI.

But, yes, look at the link. It mentions most things needed to know to get things up and running.

[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

[Louis Dias]

I'm saved!

Once I run DiskSalv on my old 3.1 partition, then my plans to rule the world through my CD32+SX-1 can finally be put into action...

WinUAE FTW!

To bad UAE FTW doesn't mean UEA For The Wii!

[lopos]

Colani1200 wrote:
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

You are welcome. I only use WinUAE so I can't say if it's working with E-UAE.

[orange]

my plans to rule the world through my CD32+SX-1 can finally be put into action...

I, for one, welcome our new CD32+SX-1  overlords..
 :bow:



 ;-)

[Louis Dias]

Yes, with the help of a Palm serial-ethernet adapter, I will propagate the world (wide web) at speeds of hopefully 115k (no not miles per hour, but bits per second).

Only on Saturday did I find my dkb HIGH DENSITY disk drive!

...

Now if I only had an Amiga mouse...  Then my plans would be complete!

[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).  :-?  :-(

[uncleted]

Now if I only had an Amiga mouse... Then my plans would be complete!

You can try holding down Right Amiga and pressing the arrow keys.  Clicks are made with the Alt keys IIRC.

It's pretty tedious but I managed to get some stuff done that way before my mouse arrived.

[lopos]

@Colani1200
I tried it again this morning with AmiKit and it's working fine. No problem at all.

[Louis Dias]

my usb drive wasn't recognized but I may have to plug in the extra usb connector for more power...

Luckily, I have a ps/2 -> AT keyboard adapter handy, thanks for the tip!

[lopos]

lou_dias wrote:
my usb drive wasn't recognized but I may have to plug in the extra usb connector for more power...

Luckily, I have a ps/2 -> AT keyboard adapter handy, thanks for the tip!

Did XP or WinUAE not reconized your USB drive?