The Fabled Power of WinUAE

[RedWarrior]

Ok- 120 meg Amiga drive attached to my xp machine... latest version of WinUAE... detected in bios, all good....

No icon on xp desktop, no icon on Workbench.

These legends of winuae being able to read Amiga drives...  pure myth?

[Karlos]

Worked fine for me. I transferred all my data from my old amiga HD to a new one with WinUAE. I was running Win2K however, not sure if that makes a difference.

Are you using NTFS as your main file system under windows? IIRC, it only works if windows is running NTFS for some reason.

Anyway, in the configuration window for uae, under the drives section you should be able to add it there.

[RedWarrior]

I got nothing.


The drive is visible in the XP device manager, but that's all.  

What does IIRC mean? :-x

[mantisspider]

Hi mate,

this whole net speak confuses me too man.
IIRC means If I recall Correctly

it took me ages before i figured it out... ok i went to dictionary.com i admit it

[adolescent]

Worked fine here with my A1200 IDE drive.  What format is the drive, and what controller did it come from?  (ie. does it have a standard filesystem and RDB?)

[RedWarrior]

It's an Amiga formatted 124meg Seagate ST3144A... don't know what file-system...  wtf is and RDB IIRC?

XP is too busy keeping up appearances to allow an "unknown" drive on the desktop.

Computers.

I think I'm gonna scream.      :~(  

[adz]

Dude, you can't see the Amiga drive from XP, all you can see is a drive under computer management. You mount the drive via WinUAE, there is a pull down menu under the hard drive tab, when you click it, you should see your drive.

[CodeSmith]

@RedWarrior:

Chill out dude!

The fact that you can see the drive in the device manager means XP can see it.  You can't see it on the desktop, because XP does not have an Amiga FFS (Fast File System) driver installed (has anyone written one of those?)

I can't help you with why WinUAE won't see the drive, it should be showing up on the emulated workbench.  I've only ever used hardfiles, but I understand lots of people have gotten it to work.  So it's probably just a simple config issue, one of the other guys here should be able to help you out (bloodline? you around?)

[Rodney]

RedWarrior wrote:
Ok- 120 meg Amiga drive attached to my xp machine... latest version of WinUAE... detected in bios, all good....

No icon on xp desktop, no icon on Workbench.

These legends of winuae being able to read Amiga drives...  pure myth?

I assume that you've added it in the WinUAE configurator??

[RedWarrior]

There is no option to!

I checked "Add PC drives at startup"

and all other paths WinHD_X point to existing xp partitions.  It doesnt list or detect the Amiga drive.

[RedWarrior]

can anyone validate the LATEST version of WinUAE (as of 18/11/03)??

I have version  0.8.8 release 8

is there a later one? websearch reveals too many locations professing to be the "home " of WinUAE...

[Psychobudgie]

www.winuae.net is the home of winuae


Edited by Argo: Corrected URL and made linkable

[N7VQM]

RedWarrior wrote:
wtf is RDB?

RDB=Rigid Disk Block.  It's the first few blocks on the drive that AmigaOS uses to keep track of partitions.

[Trev]

This is taken directly from the UAEHowTo.txt included with WinUAE:

"Select the hardrive in page harddrive with add harddrives. If there is no Drive listed then it is possible that this drive has no Amiga/Amithlon Partition or you use win98-me and your ASPI Manager support no Hardrives. The device name for this is uaehf.device."

Regardless of which operating system you're using (Windows 98/Me or Windows 2000/XP), you should download and install Adaptec's Windows ASPI Package. WinUAE needs an adequate ASPI layer installed to enumerate your system's devices. You can select your Amiga drive from the Hard Drives tab of the WinUAE Properties dialog by clicking on the Add Harddrive button and locating the Amiga drive in the Harddrive drop-down list. Any disk with a valid RDB should be visible, even if the disk hasn't been partitioned.

If everything's working properly, you can use HDToolbox and the uaehf.device inside the emulation to view or edit your drive's partitions:

hdtoolbox device=uaehf.device

If partitions exist on the drive, they should be recognized by Amiga OS.

Trev

[bloodline]

RedWarrior wrote:
can anyone validate the LATEST version of WinUAE (as of 18/11/03)??

I have version  0.8.8 release 8

is there a later one? websearch reveals too many locations professing to be the "home " of WinUAE...

Click the link below for the latest version of WinUAE
WinUAE home page

If your Hard drive is a strandard Amiga Formated Hard drive it should show up and be usable inside the WinUAE program (if you have your WinUAE config right, you can even boot from it).