Strange Prefs (non) behaviour.

khph_re · 01 October 2010, 20:35

Hope someone can help me with this...

I decided to reinstall 3.9 on WinUae ready to transfer to my A1200. After many trials and tribulations (Amidock causing ramlib crashes etc, not ticking the uaescsi box!) I finally got it installed on a fresh partition.

All looks fine, but none of the prefs work, the icons are there (and Dopus says the files are too). Same goes for the actual CD and the emergency disk.
...I know the emergency disk prefs used to work, 'cos I switched colour and resolution.

Strangely, I have a backup 3.1 partition, that one works fine!

Anyone have any ideas?

davideo · 01 October 2010, 20:38

Sounds like the write protection is still set on the files from the CD.

Dave G

khph_re · 02 October 2010, 12:57

thought i'd avoided that with the whole 'protect df0:#? +wd all' thing.
Can you think of an easy fix?

Toni Wilen · 02 October 2010, 13:44

Did you use uaescsi.device CD mode, not "CD mounted as a harddrive"?

khph_re · 02 October 2010, 14:34

Hi,
Yeah, I used uaescsi.device (once I found the tick box) I followed Thomas's guide. I must be doing something seriously wrong, I installed it on my A4000T a few years ago, and that's fine.
Found A HDF that works off P2P, but it's in french with loads of other crap installed. It's prefs work fine...unless I boot from my HDF file.

01 October 2010, 20:35	#1
khph_re Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Northampton/UK Posts: 525	Strange Prefs (non) behaviour. Hope someone can help me with this... I decided to reinstall 3.9 on WinUae ready to transfer to my A1200. After many trials and tribulations (Amidock causing ramlib crashes etc, not ticking the uaescsi box!) I finally got it installed on a fresh partition. All looks fine, but none of the prefs work, the icons are there (and Dopus says the files are too). Same goes for the actual CD and the emergency disk. ...I know the emergency disk prefs used to work, 'cos I switched colour and resolution. Strangely, I have a backup 3.1 partition, that one works fine! Anyone have any ideas?

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01 October 2010, 20:38	#2
davideo Amiga Tomcat Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Boston Lincs Posts: 1,500	Sounds like the write protection is still set on the files from the CD. Dave G

02 October 2010, 12:57	#3
khph_re Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Northampton/UK Posts: 525	thought i'd avoided that with the whole 'protect df0:#? +wd all' thing. Can you think of an easy fix?

02 October 2010, 13:44	#4
Toni Wilen WinUAE developer Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hämeenlinna/Finland Age: 49 Posts: 26,518	Did you use uaescsi.device CD mode, not "CD mounted as a harddrive"?

02 October 2010, 14:34	#5
khph_re Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Northampton/UK Posts: 525	Hi, Yeah, I used uaescsi.device (once I found the tick box) I followed Thomas's guide. I must be doing something seriously wrong, I installed it on my A4000T a few years ago, and that's fine. Found A HDF that works off P2P, but it's in french with loads of other crap installed. It's prefs work fine...unless I boot from my HDF file.

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