USB Amiga Harddrives.

r6stu · 28 September 2007, 11:41

I have taken my Harddrive out of my amiga and connected it into a 2.5in usb harddrive case.

How can I connect this to UAE to work? Windows reconizes the hdd when connected but obviously cant read it. I would like to back it up to cd.

If not can I connect it to the IDE connector and read that way?

Thanks

Stu

Chain · 28 September 2007, 12:18

some ide-usb convertors (and CF readers) are weird.
tryit directly to ide channel instead

alexh · 28 September 2007, 12:51

Does "Add Hard drive" in WinUAE not detect it?

r6stu · 28 September 2007, 14:34

No it dosent. cause its an amiga formated drive, windows wont give it a device ID.

Toni Wilen · 28 September 2007, 14:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by r6stu

No it dosent. cause its an amiga formated drive, windows wont give it a device ID.

Huh? You sure you clicked on "Add Harddrive"?

(preferably using 1.4.4)

ADDED: Does the drive appear in Windows disk manager including correct size? (it will appear as unformatted which is normal) because at least some very old drives are not compatible with all USB adapters.

Thorham · 04 October 2007, 13:21

I think your best bet is to use a 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch converter, and connect the drive directly to a free ide port in the pc (just get the jumper setting for master/slave right). Now winuae will detect the drive, but only if you can use ntfs (win2000/xp/vista). Also, what windows will tell you about the drive is not important , as winuae does the work here. Of course you do have to open your pc for this, and I know that is not every ones cup of tea.

If you do, watch out with 2.5 to 3.5 converters, some are very flimsy. I had a really bad one (really cheap, too, 5 euros) and I ended up having to turn my miggy on then off to adjust the bugger if it didn't boot and then on again a million times just to get it to boot. The one I have now is PERFECT and was 12 euros at Media Markt.

Such a converter is also great for connecting cheap 3.5 inch drives as well as cd re-writers (don't use dvd re-writers, as make cd can't burn with them) witch are also dirt cheap. You'll also need a pc style power supply to power the external drives (and ide-fix to use the cd re-writer).
This way you can always backup amiga files to cd without needing your pc (this is the main reason for using the above setup).

twizzle · 04 October 2007, 20:31

i have no problems burning cd`s with make cd, on my dvd+rw,
cd+rw master, dvd+rw slave.

Thorham · 07 October 2007, 19:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by twizzle

i have no problems burning cd`s with make cd, on my dvd+rw,
cd+rw master, dvd+rw slave.

May have something to do with me using an older version of make cd. Also the Philips drive I use (dvd+rw dual layer) might just be unsupported. This is actually fine as this drive is for my pc anyway, I just hooked it up to see if it works! (reading cds and dvds works fine though, thanks to ide fix)

28 September 2007, 11:41	#1
r6stu Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Southampton Age: 43 Posts: 112	USB Amiga Harddrives. I have taken my Harddrive out of my amiga and connected it into a 2.5in usb harddrive case. How can I connect this to UAE to work? Windows reconizes the hdd when connected but obviously cant read it. I would like to back it up to cd. If not can I connect it to the IDE connector and read that way? Thanks Stu

28 September 2007, 12:51	#3
alexh Thalion Webshrine Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oxford Posts: 14,354	Does "Add Hard drive" in WinUAE not detect it? Attached Thumbnails Last edited by alexh; 28 September 2007 at 12:59.

04 October 2007, 13:21	#6
Thorham Computer Nerd Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Rotterdam/Netherlands Age: 47 Posts: 3,764	I think your best bet is to use a 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch converter, and connect the drive directly to a free ide port in the pc (just get the jumper setting for master/slave right). Now winuae will detect the drive, but only if you can use ntfs (win2000/xp/vista). Also, what windows will tell you about the drive is not important , as winuae does the work here. Of course you do have to open your pc for this, and I know that is not every ones cup of tea. If you do, watch out with 2.5 to 3.5 converters, some are very flimsy. I had a really bad one (really cheap, too, 5 euros) and I ended up having to turn my miggy on then off to adjust the bugger if it didn't boot and then on again a million times just to get it to boot. The one I have now is PERFECT and was 12 euros at Media Markt. Such a converter is also great for connecting cheap 3.5 inch drives as well as cd re-writers (don't use dvd re-writers, as make cd can't burn with them) witch are also dirt cheap. You'll also need a pc style power supply to power the external drives (and ide-fix to use the cd re-writer). This way you can always backup amiga files to cd without needing your pc (this is the main reason for using the above setup). Last edited by Thorham; 04 October 2007 at 13:28.

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