Trying to make HDF file with PSF3 but it not showing on the Workbench

[spannernick]

I am trying to make a HDF file but I want its partition to be on PSF3, I use HD Tool Box to change its partition and then it disappears from Workbench...?

I copied my CF Hard Drive from my A1200 with WinUAE and thats on PSF3 and that works ok so Simon the Sorcerer CD32 version plays ok on that.

[thomas]

Did you read the documentation about how to make PFS3 (or any other third-party file system) available to the OS? Add/Update, identifier and so on?

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/PFS3_53

You can also use a ready made hardfile from https://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=925762&postcount=7

[spannernick]

Yes I made one a while ago on my CF card for my A1200 so I did it right but it dose not work with a normal HDF file.

My HDF file thats a copy of my CF Card PFS3 works fine on that.

So maybe the only way is to use maybe A SD Card and use that like a CF Card and put PFS3 on that and then copy it to a HDF and that might work.

It dose not work properly with a HDF file, HD Tool Box can not read the HDF file properly and has the wrong size for the HDF

[thomas]

Originally Posted by spannernick

with a normal HDF file

Did you click on "RDB mode" when you added the HDF? A "normal" a.k.a. big-floppy HDF cannot be edited with HDToolbox.

Your CF card HDF probably switches to RDB mode automatically because it already contains an RDB.

[spannernick]

I managed to make HDF now and added the files and it needed RDB mode on but I can't get it to boot from it now, I can see it and that in Workbench but can't boot from it, all that happens is the purple floppy screen comes up.

[SpaceAce]

Have you added the PFS3 filesystem to the RDB on the HDF?

[spannernick]

I had a idea, the HDF with PSF3 will not boot so what I did was made another HDF file that uses FFS and used it to boot the HDF with PSF3 to read the Simon.iso from and it worked... Simon is now working without the talking skipping... and booting from HD.

Thanks for the help, need to check if the save on it works now, if anyone wants a copy I can upload it to the zone...?

[spannernick]

Got the save working now too... but I noticed the save is connected to the CD animation that goes across the screen, I wonder if there is a way of hiding it, if you remove SimCD32Env then the save does not work...?

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by thomas

Did you read the documentation about how to make PFS3 (or any other third-party file system) available to the OS? Add/Update, identifier and so on?

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/PFS3_53

You can also use a ready made hardfile from https://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=925762&postcount=7

Thank you for the hardfiles, they are very helpful

[spannernick]

Originally Posted by SpaceAce

Have you added the PFS3 filesystem to the RDB on the HDF?

I know this is old and I made the HDF file for Simon but now can not remember how I did it, what do you mean by `Have you added the PFS3 filesystem to the RDB on the HDF` do you mean use HDToolbox, I tried that and the hdf is not there or on Workbench, I trying to make a 1 GB hdf now so not a 700mb file, I thought I might of copied my CF HD and its 0x number but tried that and still not showing on the Workbench Screen, I noticed the simon.hdf had the same 0x... hex number as my CF HD card hdf image.. 0x5244534B from this part the drive ID... ` RDSK...@/t.y.... [5244534B 00000040 2F74CE79 00000007]`

In WinUAE you can made HDF where it says `New hard disk image file` and if I pick `PFS3`in the drop down box in the HDF settings panel and make a 1GB file, Workbench 3.1 do not see it when I add it and it does not appear on the Workbench Screen.
its ID is... ` PFS............. [50465300 00000000 00000000 00000000] [Geometry larger than drive!]`

[mrv2k]

If you're running Windows use Henrik's HST Imager command line tool. Set up a script with what you want it to do and run the exe with the script. Job done. I use it to make all the AGS hdf files. My script creates, partitions with PFS3 and formats the hdf file. I can then mount the file in WinUAE and it's ready to use. No formatting or rubbish like that. This is an example script.

# create blank 16gb image with compatible size (cf/sd/ssd friendly)
blank AGS_Pure.hdf 16000000000 --compatible

# initialize rigid disk block
rdb init AGS_Pure.hdf --size 15093500000 --rdb-block-lo 2

# add rdb file system pfs3aio with dos type PDS3
rdb fs add AGS_Pure.hdf pfs3aio PDS3

# add rdb partition of 100mb with device name "DH0" and set bootable
rdb part add AGS_Pure.hdf DH0 PDS3 100mb --bootable

# add rdb partition with device name "DH1"
rdb part add AGS_Pure.hdf DH1 PDS3 *

rdb part update AGS_Pure.hdf 1 --max-transfer 0x1fe00
rdb part update AGS_Pure.hdf 2 --max-transfer 0x1fe00

# format rdb partition number 1 with volume name "Workbench"
rdb part format AGS_Pure.hdf 1 Workbench1

# format rdb partition number 2 with volume name "Work"
rdb part format AGS_Pure.hdf 2 Work1

# initialize master boot record at sector 0
mbr init AGS_Pure.hdf

# add mbr partition of remaining space of type fat32
mbr part add AGS_Pure.hdf fat32 *

# format mbr partition number 1 with label "PC"
mbr part format AGS_Pure.hdf 1 "SHARED1"

# show info
info AGS_Pure.hdf

https://github.com/henrikstengaard/hst-imager

[spannernick]

Originally Posted by mrv2k

If you're running Windows use Henrik's HST Imager command line tool. Set up a script with what you want it to do and run the exe with the script. Job done. I use it to make all the AGS hdf files. My script creates, partitions with PFS3 and formats the hdf file. I can then mount the file in WinUAE and it's ready to use. No formatting or rubbish like that. This is an example script.

# create blank 16gb image with compatible size (cf/sd/ssd friendly)
blank AGS_Pure.hdf 16000000000 --compatible

# initialize rigid disk block
rdb init AGS_Pure.hdf --size 15093500000 --rdb-block-lo 2

# add rdb file system pfs3aio with dos type PDS3
rdb fs add AGS_Pure.hdf pfs3aio PDS3

# add rdb partition of 100mb with device name "DH0" and set bootable
rdb part add AGS_Pure.hdf DH0 PDS3 100mb --bootable

# add rdb partition with device name "DH1"
rdb part add AGS_Pure.hdf DH1 PDS3 *

rdb part update AGS_Pure.hdf 1 --max-transfer 0x1fe00
rdb part update AGS_Pure.hdf 2 --max-transfer 0x1fe00

# format rdb partition number 1 with volume name "Workbench"
rdb part format AGS_Pure.hdf 1 Workbench1

# format rdb partition number 2 with volume name "Work"
rdb part format AGS_Pure.hdf 2 Work1

# initialize master boot record at sector 0
mbr init AGS_Pure.hdf

# add mbr partition of remaining space of type fat32
mbr part add AGS_Pure.hdf fat32 *

# format mbr partition number 1 with label "PC"
mbr part format AGS_Pure.hdf 1 "SHARED1"

# show info
info AGS_Pure.hdf

https://github.com/henrikstengaard/hst-imager

Thanks Paul, this will come in handy...