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myfavheadache (13:51 24/7/2010)
asm1 (20:07 24/7/2010)
Charlie (21:58 24/7/2010)
flibble (21:29 25/7/2010)
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Justin Lawes |
Message #114867, posted by myfavheadache at 13:51, 24/7/2010 |
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Hi people,
is it possible to use a CF HD with an A7000? I was thinking I could sort out the OS with an emulator and put some programs on the HD via that method.
is it possible?
Justin |
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Andrew |
Message #114869, posted by asm1 at 20:07, 24/7/2010, in reply to message #114867 |
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Should be
All you need is a 40 pin 3.5 inch CF----> IDE converter. I've done it on my Risc PC.
Sorting the OS via an emulator I'm less sure of. I don't think you can, at least not in the way you think although I stand to be corrected. I went for a Network card and connected it to my PC which had Virtual Risc PC on it. I then set a public "shared" folder on both the RPC and the VRPC - so both machines could see each public folder.
Since the OS is in rom (at least partially) I'm not sure if you can build a HD in this way - i.e. whether or not you can connect an Acorn drive (the CF) to a PC and have it recognised by the emulator as a drive, rather than just a "file location" (PC format)- not sure I'm using the correct terms, but would be interested to see if it is possible myself. |
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Charlie |
Message #114871, posted by Charlie at 21:58, 24/7/2010, in reply to message #114869 |
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Quite agree with Andrew, indeed I'd say a CF card via a CF->IDE adaptor is preferable to a 'real' IDE drive on any ROS machine.
Sadly, to my knowledge, none of the ROS emulators directly support HDD's which is a real shame...
...one of the great uses of UAE (if you're an Amiga owner) is being able to set up your ideal system via the emulator on a CF card and then just plug it in to the real system - good for file transfer and backups too. |
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Peter Howkins |
Message #114874, posted by flibble at 21:29, 25/7/2010, in reply to message #114871 |
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Sadly, to my knowledge, none of the ROS emulators directly support HDD's which is a real shame... Red Squirrel, Virtual Acorn, Arcem, Arculator and RPCEmu all support reading and writing to Hard Disk image files.
I have previously used Virtual Acorn to create a hard disc image, copied on sparkplug and uniboot, then wrote it to HD using dd under linux.
(I would actually avoid RPCEmu and Arculator for creating HD files as they both in the past had an off-by-one-sector bug that would stop an image file from on real hardware)
As for CF as the HD, it works very well *but*
1) You can't hot-plug a CF card in an IDE adapter, power off whatever system it's plugged into.
2) You can't just plug a CF card into a PC and copy files onto it via windows or linux. You need to create a disk image (a raw dump of the binary data off a disc) and write it onto the CF with the IDE adapter.
3) Mine is benchmarked at about 80% the speed of a regular HD. |
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