5/3/2021 0 Comments Amiga Workbench 3 1 Adf Scan
This will open another window and one of the icons there will be HDToolBox.At this point I was able to get the Amiga to boot from the Flash drive while attached to the IDE port on the Viper Accelerator.After some experimenting I found that the IDE CD drive was not recognised when connected to the accelerator board.
I also found that it was not recognised when I removed the hard drive from the Alfapower and reconfigured the CD drive as the IDE master. I did have success though when I moved the Compact Flash drive from the accelerator board to the Alfapower IDE connector. Amiga Workbench 3 1 Adf Scan Zip Ram ChipsYou can see that the hard drive enclosure also contains 4mb of Zip ram chips. At this point the only CF card I had was a 4gb card and all that space was being used by the 3 partitions. This isnt the case when its plugged into the IDE port on the accelerator. A quick look online suggested that the IDE interface may not read past a set limit and any partition that crosses or is beyond that limit cannot be read. I attempted to get WinUAE to read the new card so that I could create smaller partitions. This didnt work and after some online searching I concluded that I needed an ADF image of the Workbench Install disk. I purchased yet another CF card, this one came with Workbench preinstalled. The biggest help was that it also came with the Workbench 3.1 discs in ADF format. This was great as I now had a bootable Workbench Install disc with HDToolbox. WinUAE uses a SCSI device name of uaehf.device instead of scsi.device and so this needs to be changed in the HDToolbox configuration. Once booted, I copied the HDToolbox program to the Ram Disk to and edited the icon configuration. I was able to create partitions but another obstacle was encountered when I went to save the changes. Seems WinUAE couldnt write to the drive while it was still mounted on the PC. I tried a couple of things but in the end I had to use Diskpart to clean the CF card, this appears to remove the filesystem from the drive. I rebooted WinUAE and relaunched HDToolbox and this time the partitions were created. You will see that the usual C: prompt has now changed to DISKPART. You are looking for the disk number that is listed against your CF drive. If you are unsure stop here as you could wipe the wrong drive. Or you can set up a new one from scratch by selecting your Amiga type and ROM to match the version of Workbench you will be using.
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