Trying to transfer ClassicWB to 4GB CF and at the end of my tether!!!

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Originally Posted by fitzsteve

Thats awesome news

PCMCIA transfers are perfect for a few games or files but doing large packs of games that way is very slow.

It's much faster if you hook the CF back up to the PC and use WinUAE, you can boot from your CF and mount another partition (a folder on the PC) with all the WHDLoad games in it and use directory opus to extract them into you A,B,C,etc folders.

You should move them to a larger partition and edit the assign, see the CWB Tutorials:

http://classicwb.abime.net/classicweb/tutorials.htm

Have fun!

Steve.

Glad you got it working.

I agree with steve, use winuae to mount your CF and copy all games across that way.
One tip, is make sure you set buffers to 1000 or 2000 using;
addbuffers DH0: 1000
or
addbuffers DH0: 2000

Do that to all drives you are using or you will be there for a whole day copying all WHDLoad games to HDD.

[pinchez]

When you say "addbuffers DH0: 1000 or addbuffers DH0: 2000" I have mine set at 100 at the moment so I take it I change this to 2000 and leave it set at that even when I pluf the CF back in to the Amiga?

Also will there be any disadvantage to this when the CF is on the Amiga?

Thanks again

[roy bates]

i think what fol meant was to set for uae OR in shell/cli but dont set it permanently for amiga use.

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Originally Posted by roy bates

i think what fol meant was to set for uae OR in shell/cli but dont set it permanently for amiga use.

What roy said.
Adding buffers uses system memory.

[pinchez]

Ok think I understand now!

Cheers lads

[pinchez]

Ok so I decided to transfer some WHDload packs today starting with demo's

I plugged 4GB CF card back in to PC and fired up WinUAE, opened shell and "typed addbuffers DH0: 2000" did the same for DH1 and DH2 but message popped up informing me I had 2100 buffers (this happened on all drives)

I then followed the guide Steve posted

http://classicwb.abime.net/classicweb/tutorials.htm

But every time I copy Demos from DH0: to DH1: I get a Software Error 8000 0003 and reboot. I've also tried this by dragging Demo's in to DH1: in workbench and the same thing happens!

Nothing gets copied btw accept for demo.info

Any Ideas?

EDIT: Okay, I've worked it out now, Had to 0 the Z3 Fast Ram

[spannernick]

How I copied System from HDF to my Real HD for my stock A1200,Used Dopus to do it put System from HDF in the left and DH0 in the right,then click on left and then All then Copy and it starts copying to DH0....Done..

Its doing it right now...Copying that is..

Oh and if you want to format the HD before you copy the system files over just boot up Workbench 3.1 ADF in WinUAE then you woun't have any problem copying the files over..

Dopus is in (HDF file)System>Programs>DirectoryOpus4

It can't copy files if its using them..


Just noticed this is 4 months old but it might help someone out there..