Need a little help with a 3000 and bluescsi

[rcoonjr]

I have had my amiga 3000 for awhile.  my hard drive died of course due to age.  I purchased a bluescsi v2.  I'm am so confused.  I  a 32gb SD card installed.  The amiga doe see the blank hard drive I made in WINUAE( made a 1gb drive) .  Now the amiga will not partition the disk in the tools.  I cannot even reinstall the OS.   I'm at a loss.  does anyone have a simular setup or tips that I can follow to get my old beast up and going.   

Thanks for anyones help.

[rcoonjr]

**update**
I have verified my image I made my my SD card in WinUAE without any issues the OS was installed and boots fine.. Bluescsi cannot seem to see it.


Resolved!  Admin can delete this post.  Thanks!

[Boing-ball]

How did you resolve this? Maybe helpful for others.

For Zulu and Blue SCSI you have to partition the SD card as a FAT32 or ExFat then create a blank or blanks .hdf disk Image(s) in WinUAE.
Then rename hdf to hda. Then the Amiga and HDToolbox will see the partition(s).

[kolla]

you have to partition the SD card as a FAT32 or ExFat then create a blank or blanks .hdf disk Image(s) in WinUAE.
Then rename hdf to hda.

Why must one use WinUAE? Doesn't (for example) this work?

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fsutil file createNew "mydisk.hda" (2GB)

[Boing-ball]

Why must one use WinUAE? Doesn't (for example) this work?

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fsutil file createNew "mydisk.hda" (2GB)

FYI. Here are some videos explaining it to you…….Unless you know different?

https://youtu.be/__yq7rKpCG8?si=KDKBeCgRs1ulfGgn

https://youtu.be/d0Es-THXSYI?si=ypDkwQFoNq6XFA1a

https://youtu.be/xxqs4feaCmk?si=Ibg55tOYidhrQmts

[kolla]

Well, none of them explain anything on the matter.

I just find it weird that WinUAE would be required to just make a file, bluescsi isn’t an amiga-only device and surely people who use it with other platforms don’t have to use WinUAE to create their disk files.


EDIT: the manual suggests that I’m correct, it shows using dd which does the same as what I suggested above.
https://bluescsi.com/docs/BlueSCSI-Images#Custom