Day: 8 February 2010

Dammit, E-UAE is fiddly to set up. I finally got hard disk images working, by doing something like this:

1. For an 160MB image, create the blank file: dd if=/dev/zero of=blank160.hdf bs=1M count=160
2. Add the file specification to your .uaerc, something like: hardfile2=rw,DH2:$(FILE_PATH)/Amiga/blank160.hdf,32,1,2,512,-12,
(Yeah, linux e-uae doesn’t allow you to add in HDF images. Annoying.)
3. I found I had to put the amiga system executable FastFileSystem in with my ROM path. Your path may vary – look at the UAE log output for something like ‘RDB: fakefilesys, trying to load ...‘, and see where you want it to go.
4. Pop into UAE, start a CLI or Shell, and issue this command: format DRIVE DH2: NAME hd160 FFS QUICK

I’ve updated the drive images from yesterday, so you probably won’t need to format them.