Problem with 'read only' WinUAE disks

[peroxidechicken]

I've been using the previous version of WinUAE for some time and was always a little curious about why my floppy disk files were stuck on 'read only'.  But it didn't bother me because I'd just copy files I wanted to change to my hard disk file.  

Until my hard disk file also became 'read only'.  I know there's a little dialouge box to change such things for hard disk files but it's just not doing the trick.  I downloaded the latest WinUAE and started with a new hard disk file so I guess I'll get around to mounting my old one and copying files over - has anyone had a similar experience?  

[Merc]

I've had UAE set the readonly flag on files that I copy from read only disks (usually CD) onto the UAE hard disk... That's probably what you're seeing....  Try opening a shell and CD to the root of the drive with the readonly files, and
do a "protect #? +rw".  That should, with any luck, fix things up

[peroxidechicken]

Ah - such a simple solution.  Why didn't I think of that?  Thanks Merc, that was driving me crazy!  

[Merc]

Glad I could help  :-D
 
I've been meaning to mention this to the WinUAE guys for a while now, I think it only happens when you have a CD mounted on the Amiga side as a directory from the PC -- if you use IDEFix and uaescsi.device, with a proper AmigaOS dosdriver I think it works as it should..  Probably because the read-only flag gets checked off when you set up the CDROM in UAE, and it just filters the writable/deletable flags when files get copied.

[Dickifit]

derek.lofthouse@ntlworld.com              
came across an old amiga game silent service11
which my grandson wants to play on a pent 3 comp
as a real novice on comps how and what do I do your help would be appreciated please xplain in simple terms

[alx]

came across an old amiga game silent service11
which my grandson wants to play on a pent 3 comp
as a real novice on comps how and what do I do your help would be appreciated please xplain in simple terms

Welcome to A.org :-D

You might want to make a new topic for this otherwise I doubt that you'll get many replies.  Anyway, I've written an article that may interest you:

What You Need To Emulate

Basically you need an emulator - a special program that makes your PC think its an Amiga.  For that to work, you then need an "image" of the ROM - the Kickstart ROM is a special chip inside an Amiga that has software the emulator needs.  It's illegal to download it, so you can either copy it across from an existing Amiga, or get a licensed version.  You might be interested in Amiga Forever - it's a combined package that includes the ROMs and emulators, so it's far easier to set up.

Once you have a working emulator, you then need to transfer the disk to the PC, but lets see if the emulator will work first.

[Ilwrath]

I've had UAE set the readonly flag on files that I copy from read only disks (usually CD) onto the UAE hard disk... That's probably what you're seeing....

I've run into a similar, yet different problem with WinUAE.   I think mine is actually GUI-related.  Whenever I choose a HDFile for my hard drive, it selects it as "Read Only."  I can add a checkmark for the "R/W" option, and it promptly removes it when I go back and view it again.  If I set the check on it and just start the emulation, it mounts the drive as read-only, anyhow.  Very annoying.  Not sure how to fix.