WinUAE

[mindprober]

I couldn't find a more appropriate forum. Is it okay to ask a question about WinUAE here? I mean about the emulation program itself, not necessarily the OS side.

I was curious if there was any change in the operation of the program since 2.x with regard to hard drive detection. I am running the latest version now (2.3.2). I seem to recall that I was once able to mount my REAL AmigaOS formatted IDE drive using my IDE-USB adapter. I could select the drive from a pull-down menu in the hard drive setup section. It no longer appears now and I know I did not have the drive directly connected to my Windows machine's IDE bus before.

One other thing that did change is I am now running Windows 7. The last time the drive was detected, I was on Win XP.


Thanks any for assistance.

[desiv]

Yes, recently the hard drive stuff was changed (last release or 2??)...
Here you go:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=59847

desiv

[mindprober]

I vaguely recall something about -disableharddrivesafetycheck but I'm not sure at what point I need to activate it. I will check the WinUAE docs.

[desiv]

It's ignored in the newer releases.  You have to go back a few releases to be able to use it...

desiv

[Heiroglyph]

The whole point of removing it was because it didn't always do what was intended if you forced it.

If everything is right, it will work on either version.

If not, say you have an existing windows type partition on that drive, then it was hit and miss and sometimes windows would let you think it was writing to the disk and not write at all.

I know the newest version will work, I've used it, but you have to remove any windows partitions from the drive and possibly reboot before you can make an RDB disk out of it.

For existing RDB disks, it's a lot more likely that some configuration setting is wrong.

[desiv]

The whole point of removing it was because it didn't always do what was intended if you forced it..

Yes, but sometimes it did what was intended.  Frequently in fact.
I just have an older version installed for that.

desiv

[mindprober]

Thanks for the info, guys.  

When I was last able to mount the REAL AmigaDOS drive, I copied the contents of the data to a couple of WinUAE hard disk files. I know I had to do a little tweaking to use an OS taken directly form a real A3000 under UAE. One glaring problem I have not been able to solve is my mouse pointer is not working! I looked for anything in WBstartup and the startup-sequence that could affect it and found nothing. It could be that perhaps the whole system just freezes on launch and I cannot tell the difference. Perhaps I can try some keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas? I really like the idea of using my "old system" with UAE as if I still have the old hardware rather than building an Amiga OS system natively for UAE. I have done this successfully, by the way. This is how I am able to get some control over the hard disk files for the transferred OS.

[Heiroglyph]

Last time I saw the mouse do that, I had a messed up combination of configuration settings.

I can't remember exactly, but I know it was when I was changing the hardware settings trying to get a hard drive to work so I'm sure it was the same issue.

Once I got them right, both the drive and mouse worked, I just wish I remembered the exact changes I made.

[mindprober]

Are you referring to WinUAE settings? I cannot for the life of me think of what could have been missed. Similar settings work with my other configuration profiles. I did check the input settings just for the heck of it. I even tried selecting my mouse directly instead of just using the "windows default".

I'm thinking maybe I need to look at possible picasso96 or prefs files on the OS side. I could try just wiping them out.  

Last time I saw the mouse do that, I had a messed up combination of configuration settings.

I can't remember exactly, but I know it was when I was changing the hardware settings trying to get a hard drive to work so I'm sure it was the same issue.

Once I got them right, both the drive and mouse worked, I just wish I remembered the exact changes I made.