File copying on amiga formatted CF card

[fgh]

Hi there,

I have set up an sd card with pfs3(ds) and classicWB in WinUAE, and it works fine in my a1200.
Now I want to transfer the 2600 WHDLoad games from a folder on the PC to the SD within WinUAE, and it's taking FOREVER!

WinUAE is set up with JIT and "fastest possible" CPU emulation speed.
Switching the CF from ide0 to uae and using addbuffers (600) made a difference, but it's still taking hours.

Is there a quicker way to do this? (I plan to do it again with other cards)
As far as I know there is still no way to access an amiga formatted cf card on a pc outside WinUAE?
If the SD cards were identical I could clone it with some ISO tool but they are not...

Would extracting an LHA archive be quicker than copying? (could compress it on the pc side)

Any suggestion is welcome

[Jope]

Press end+pausebreak?

[Skope]

I don't get why on earth you would want 2600+ games in your amiga, but fair enough. You could lan it up and transfer via ftp or similar.

[Toni Wilen]

Too high Windows process priority setting? (Try below normal first) Another possible solution is to adjust CPU idle few steps.

[thomas]

Originally Posted by fgh

I want to transfer the 2600 WHDLoad games from a folder on the PC to the SD within WinUAE, and it's taking FOREVER!)

Please define "forever". A usual CF card writes ca. 3 - 5 MB per second, raw transfer speed without file system overhead. I just tried to copy ca. 1800 MB of different sized files to a CF card formatted with PFS3 in an USB 2.0 card reader and it took me 11.5 minutes. That's 2.6 MB per second. If this is already "forever" for you, then sorry, it won't get any better.

[fitzsteve]

The WHDLoad games do take a long time to copy this way, its taken me over an hour before when setting up a CF card for a friend, its the amount of small files that seems to be the reason for the slow copy.

Only faster way is using a Hard Drive imaging tool like Ghost.

Steve.

[fgh]

Originally Posted by Jope

Press end+pausebreak?

Didn't know about Turbo mode, thanks!

Originally Posted by Skope

I don't get why on earth you would want 2600+ games in your amiga

The KGWHDLoad set is huge, the SD card was cheap, and it's fun to explore all the games from the amiga. Was also doing a card for a friend, and have no idea which games he prefers. Took away the foreign language games, so It was closer to 2000 in the end.

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Too high Windows process priority setting? (Try below normal first)

Thanks, I had the priority set to above normal..

Originally Posted by thomas

Please define "forever"

Hours, like I said in the original post.


Thanks for all your input guys, it did help quite a bit in the end!
I also noticed that not using fullscreen seems to improve the speed a bit.