IDE to USB2

[alphagemini]

Hi guys, I'm trying to connect a Conner HD from my A4000 to my PC. I am using an IDE to USB2 connector. The PC displays its presence in the Device Manager under disk drives but I cannot access it from Amiga Forever. I am having trouble getting Explorer to work properly. Any suggestions?

[mfilos]

You can't see the contents of your Amiga Hard Drive from Explorer.
You can easily mount it via WinUAE though as Hard Drive (you will see it in the list with the RDB) and either start from it, or just mount it and copy files to an already made configuration with other disks.

[alphagemini]

Thanks for your response. What is RDB? The list of devices shown as mountable devices doesn't have any reference to my Conner drive CP30104H.

I can't get Explorer to run. It throws up error messages about conflicts.

[bbond007]

Hi guys, I'm trying to connect a Conner HD from my A4000 to my PC. I am using an IDE to USB2 connector. The PC displays its presence in the Device Manager under disk drives but I cannot access it from Amiga Forever. I am having trouble getting Explorer to work properly. Any suggestions?

Right click & Try and run UAE as Administrator.

[Zac67]

RDB (=Rigid Disk Block) is the common partitioning scheme used on the Amiga.
Windows can't read it and can't understand the filesystem either. There's some support in Linux but I haven't tried it.

[alphagemini]

No help really. Still can't see the contents of the hard drive

[Thomas]

Right-click on winuae.exe and select "run as administrator", then go to the hard drives page, click on "add hard drive", select your Amiga hdd from the drop-down list, check the read/write box and click on ok.

[mfilos]

When you'll mount your HD, Windows will recognize it as unformated drive. OFC you will press cancel in the format dialog




Start WinUAE as Administrator and go to Hard Drives tab on the left and click the button "Add Hard Drive"
(In my example, I have 2xHDF files mounted as DH0 and DH1 partition in the emulator by default)




On the windows that will appear, you click on the combo box (arrow on the right)




You choose your HD from the list. You can recognise it easily since it's the only one with RDB declaration




Then you click the "Read/write" option and click "Add hard drive"




Once you're ready... just click the "Start" button and the Emulator will start...




Just for info, you can see my 8GB Backup CF mounted on my test ECS A600 clone environment

[alphagemini]

Not so easy, there are numerous options to fulfill, not to mention the ROM business. I need step by step instructions. Anyone help??

[alphagemini]

Thanks for the detail mfilos, I will try it and see if I can win!!!

regards

AG

[alphagemini]

Thanks for your help but I have a problem. Although my Conner HD is listed in Device Manager I do not get a format requester, nor is it listed in the Add Hard drive drop down in AUE, any ideas?

[Snoozy]

What version of winuae are you using?

Have you ensured that when opening winuae in windows that you opened it via right click of the mouse and "run as administrator" ?

[mfilos]

What version of WinUAE do you have? IIRC in the older versions of WinUAE you had to run it with the parameter "-disablehardrivesafetycheck".
For example: "WinUAE.exe -disablehardrivesafetycheck", that way you could then add the drive like I showed you in my screenshots.

[alphagemini]

I have the latest version, just got it from Amiga Forever

[alphagemini]

Yes