Creating and mounting hardfiles from amiga side

[rare_j]

Is it possible, from within the emulated amiga, to create a hardfile of a certain size and then mount it (and unmount it), without restarting the amiga?

[rhester72]

No, because the Amiga itself does not support fixed-disk removable media. What you're suggesting is the equivalent of plugging a hard drive into the SCSI cable of a running Amiga and having AmigaDOS see the RDB without rebooting.

Rodney

[rare_j]

I see.
Is it possible in winuae to mount a hardfile as removable media?
(Like on a real Amiga when you use a zip drive)

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by rare_j

I see.
Is it possible in winuae to mount a hardfile as removable media?
(Like on a real Amiga when you use a zip drive)

Hardfile on the fly insertion via GUI or dragndrop isn't working yet but real removable (non PC-formatted, USB sticks, memory cards, zip disks etc..) drives mount automatically.

[rare_j]

Cool, thanks Toni.
Last question - is there a limit to the number of hardfiles I can have mounted?

Would 10 or 15 hardfiles (only little ones - each under 20 Mbyte ) be ok?

[thomas]

Is it possible, from within the emulated amiga, to create a hardfile of a certain size and then mount it (and unmount it), without restarting the amiga?

You can use Diskimage or XFS or similar tools for AmigaOS to mount a HDF without the help of WinUAE.

[rare_j]

Ah, excellent, DiskImage is just perfect for the job I want to do!
Great suggestion!

You know you can create an empty hardfile with winuae, where you specify the size in Mbytes... do you know of a program on the Amiga to create a hardfile where I can specify the size in Kbytes? That would be awesome.

I see that DiskImage allows me to create a new empty hardfile with the properties of an existing device, but that's not the same.

[thomas]

Originally Posted by rare_j

do you know of a program on the Amiga to create a hardfile where I can specify the size in Kbytes?

/* rexx */

size = 880*1024
file = "ram:test.adf"

buffsize = 32768
buffer = left("",buffsize,'00'x)

if Open(out,file,write) then do
	do while (size > buffsize)
		call WriteCh(out,buffer)
		size = size - buffsize
	end
	call WriteCh(out,left(buffer,size))
	call Close(out)
end
else
	say "cannot open output file:" file

[rare_j]

Excellent! Works perfect!



Thankyou!