11 March 2022, 17:25 | #1 | |
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Trouble getting Amix install to recognize tape image
I'm finally getting around to trying to install AMIX for the A3000UX we found at my friend's place. My plan is to do this with FS-UAE, then copy the installed disk image in its entirety over to an SD card, and put SCSI2SD in the A3000UX. I'm using my own A3000 as the test bed for that part.
But... I can't get the tape recognized. I'm following instructions at these 2 places: https://www.amigaunix.com/doku.php/installation http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=86480 For files, I'm using the ones from the first link. I also tried the cpio files from that site, but got exactly the same result. https://www.amigaunix.com/lib/exe/fe...ix_21_tape.zip My FS-uAE config: Code:
[fs-uae] amiga_model = A3000 floppy_drive_0 = OS/AMIX/amix_21_boot.adf floppy_drive_1 = OS/AMIX/amix_21_root.adf floppy_drive_volume_empty = 0 hard_drive_0 = xx/FS-UAE/HardFiles/a3000ux.hdf hard_drive_0_controller = scsi6 hard_drive_0_type = rdb hard_drive_1 = xx/FS-UAE/Floppies/OS/AMIX/amix_21_tape.zip hard_drive_1_controller = scsi4 hard_drive_1_type = rdb kickstart_file = Kickstart v3.1 rev 40.62 (1993)(Commodore)(A3000).rom motherboard_ram = 16384 network_card = a2065 Quote:
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12 March 2022, 12:29 | #2 |
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I am not sure if it's gonna work as a ZIP mounted as an RDB hard drive.
I think the EAB thread talks about the old "HDD hack method" where the install media was replaced with another hard disk image (instead of a tape drive as that option was not available in emulation at the time). The standard install does not ask where the installation media is (it expects to find it on tape at SCSI4), that was only a option in the modified install script. Also look at: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=82462 From a blank configuration in WinUAE, when I added the tape drive it was declared in the .UAE file in a very different way: uaehf0=tape0,ro,:C:\users\crossover\Desktop\amix_21_tape,0,0,0,512,0,,scsi4,SCSI1 |
12 March 2022, 16:39 | #3 |
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Brilliant! Thanks for the tip. All I had to do was unzip the zip file, and point to the unzipped folder in this extra line:
uae_uaehf0=tape0,ro,:<path to the tape>/amix_21_tape,0,0,0,512,0,,scsi4,SCSI1 (and remove the 3 lines I had about HD1 of course) "retensioning tape". LOL. I do not miss some of the old tech. |
12 March 2022, 16:49 | #4 |
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Ok, great to hear!
Did you get the installation all the way thru? And the image file working in real machine with scsi2sd? Would you like to share the FS-UAE config file here? I'd like to test it myself and I could add notes to the amigaunix.com install instructions. |
12 March 2022, 18:04 | #5 |
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install went through, and patched up to 2.1p2a. Honestly, that was a lot easier than I expected.
I was able to set the date to 2022, but I still get bad conversion on system startup. Is that normal, or a sign something went wrong? Installing 3.1 and 1.3 and softkick ROMs now, will try copying over to real A3000 here as soon as done with those. Code:
[fs-uae] amiga_model = A3000 floppy_drive_volume_empty = 0 floppy_image_0 = OS/AMIX/amix_21_boot.adf floppy_image_1 = OS/AMIX/amix_21_patch.adf floppy_image_2 = OS/AMIX/amix_21_root.adf hard_drive_0 = /<path to hardfile>/a3000ux.hdf hard_drive_0_controller = scsi6 hard_drive_0_type = rdb kickstart_file = Kickstart v3.1 rev 40.62 (1993)(Commodore)(A3000).rom motherboard_ram = 16384 uae_uaehf0 = tape0,ro,:/<path to amix tape>/amix_21_tape,0,0,0,512,0,,scsi4,SCSI1 |
12 March 2022, 18:07 | #6 |
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Thanks, and good luck with the assembly
You need to replace the setclk utility with a patched one (https://www.amigaunix.com/doku.php/y2k-dst). It's in couple of places, but just basically replace them all with the newer one. |
19 March 2022, 16:43 | #7 | |
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So I'm stuck. I have a perfectly good HDF image with AMIX on it. created like this:
dd if=/dev/zero of=empty_drive.hdf count=1000000 bs=1024 Then loaded up in FS UAE, installed as above, everything works fine. But when I write that out to SD card, like this: dd if=a3000ux.hdf of=/dev/disk6 count= 1000000 bs=1024 It will not fully boot on my A3000. I get this message: Quote:
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19 March 2022, 16:51 | #8 |
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No sure, but I would try with blocksize of 512 instead, that's what old SCSI drives mostly default to (and most scsi2sd manuals suggest).
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20 March 2022, 10:00 | #9 |
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What capacity is the SD-emulated SCSI drive? Maybe it needs to be the same as the HDF size? 2000000 sectors here.
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13 April 2022, 19:49 | #11 |
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For what it's worth, I too had problems getting FS-UAE to detect the tape file, but it worked after I explicitly added the .zip extension. So in my case the config line needed to look like:
uae_uaehf0 = tape0,ro,:/Users/name/blahblah/amix_21_tape.zip,0,0,0,512,0,,scsi4,SCSI1 |
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