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Secondary master and slave HDD's not recognised
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:02 pm
by 77slevin
Hi, I'm new to the MISTer, but not to the Amiga and various forms of emulation (WinUAE, FS-UAE). I created 3 hard disk files with WinUAE and made sure that they didn't exceed 4GB (FAT32 issue) DH0 is Workbench 3.4.1, DH1 is WORK and DH2 is WORK2. I can boot from DH0 and DH1 is perfectly usable, but DH2 (secondary channel) does not show up whatever I do. Does anybody have any idea what the issue might be? Only difference I can think of is DH2 is filled with WHDLoad games, not to the brim, but pretty good filled.
Re: Secondary master and slave HDD's not recognised
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 3:46 pm
by 77slevin
Found the solution on my own. For whomever in the same situation: I'm so used to things just working in emulation I forgot that this is expected behavior on a real Amiga too. You need IDEfix97 from Aminet and install it on your Workbench to recognize both IDE channels. After install (and registration) things just worked. Hurray!
Re: Secondary master and slave HDD's not recognised
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 7:40 pm
by bbond007
if you have 3.1.4 (or 3.5 or 3.9 I assume) you can also use -->
https://aminet.net/package/driver/media/AtapiMagic
I found it more reliable than IDEFix which frequently caused workbench to become unresponsive. Maybe that is fixed now...
I followed this guide to build my own custom 3.1.4 kernel ROM so I don't need anything installed or modified in my VHD to use 4 drives...
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http://www.mfilos.com/2010/12/guide-cre ... start.html
Also see this older thread -->
viewtopic.php?p=3247#p3247
Re: Secondary master and slave HDD's not recognised
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:13 pm
by 77slevin
Ha, thanks for the information! Didn't know about AtapiMagic. Adding this to my Amiga software toolbox. I still have a backup of my HDF's pre-IDEfix install, so I can compare when using AtapiMagic.