Hard Files HDF

[DDNI]

Did anyone ever get an HDF mounted on a real Amiga?

If you did could you give a step by step guide please.

[rare_j]

I'd also like to know if this is possible.

Also, you create a HDF file on a real amiga from the contents of your hard drive?

[thomas]

@DDNI:

Did anyone ever get an HDF mounted on a real Amiga?

You need one of these:
http://www.aminet.net/package.php?pa.../diskimage.lha
http://www.aminet.net/package.php?pa...k/misc/xfs.lha
http://www.aminet.net/package.php?pa...sc/fmsdisk.lha

There should be detailed descriptions in the docs.

@rare_j:

Also, you create a HDF file on a real amiga from the contents of your hard drive?

This one can do it: http://www.aminet.net/search.php?query=tsgui
There probably are many others.

[rare_j]

I made a HDF file from my 15MB SmartFileSystem system partition with tsgui (without gzip) but on the PC I couldn't use it with winUAE. Filesystem not recognised when mounted as an additional device (NDOS on workbench).... probably something I'm doing wrong with winUAE.

[thomas]

Run TSGUI again, select the SFS partition and choose "partition information" from the menu. It will tell you what you have to enter into the fields of the "add hardfile" dialogue in WinUAE. (Surfaces / sectors / reserved and block size have to match the original partition, otherwise the HDF will not work in WinUAE.)

[Toni Wilen]

AFAIK SFS has some _absolute_ block offsets in its superblock (offsets from the beginning of the disk including the RDB, not from beginning of the partition) that are used while mounting.

Mounting will fail if they are not correct (and they are not if it is regular HDF file created from RDB harddisk or hardfile)

If I remember correctly, there is utility floating somewhere that fixes all absolute offsets.

[rare_j]

I didn't realise there was a new version out (I was on 1.8), it looks like there is some useful new stuff in there for winuae. Cool new icons as well.

Toni if I check the new box in tsgui "Full HDD Image" to create (quoted from the manual): "an image of entire hard disk with partition table (RDB) and all partitions. This corresponds to the RDB mode in WinUAE" will this help?

[Amiga-emuman]

Quick question if anybody knows:

Will any of these HDF programs work on an A500 with 68000 running WB1.3??

[thomas]

if I check the new box in tsgui "Full HDD Image" to create (quoted from the manual): "an image of entire hard disk with partition table (RDB) and all partitions. This corresponds to the RDB mode in WinUAE" will this help?

Yes, it will.