Tutorial:- Setting up a 4gb CF HDD with Classic Workbench & WHDLoad for Amiga

This is a step by step guide to setting up Classic Workbench and WHDLoad games on a 4gb CF Card for use on a real Amiga. These are the basic steps to get you up and running, should be easy to follow for a novice user.
There are more advanced settings and file systems that can be used however I wanted to keep the guide as simple as possible for Amiga users returning to the scene.
I hope this helps :)
-Fitzsteve

[@stingie2138]

Hi Fitzsteve - first of all, I'd like to thank you for this great video about the basic steps for installing WB3.1. I had difficulties to use my brand new Sandisk Ultra 8 GB cards on my ACA500+ as always dropped a write error - but thankfully, I was able to continue the process. It's a great tutorial.

[@ironmaiden5658]

Fantastic. Worked first time for me. I used an 8gb card and made a dh2, dh3, dh4 and called them games1 games2 games3 and spread the games pack across the 2gb partitions. 9 directories for each drive. Awesome tutorial. Thank you.

[@LuckyLizard1979]

I know this is an old video, but I wanted to thank you for making an easy to understand step-by-step video. I spent the weekend scouring through outdated, unclear videos when I finally found yours in an EAB thread this morning. Gave it a shot, now have Classic WB installed on my 500+/030. Cheers!

[@fitzsteve]

fantastic, glad it helped :)

[@fitzsteve]

HardDiskLover Glad to hear you resolved the issue, I'm really pleased the tutorial was useful for you :)

[@fitzsteve]

Hi! I'm really glad that you enjoyed the tutorial. I certainly think that there is a need for some more advanced ones too such as large disk support and will try to bring these to KZbin as soon as possible!

[@Lorfarius]

Fantastic guide, just followed it after struggling for ages! Thank you :)

[@fitzsteve]

Glad it helped :)

[@brokke]

Thanks for this guide Steve, finally managed to setup the CF card for my amiga.

[@fitzsteve]

Thomas Brokmann Glad to hear that :)

[@ChrisWhiteTech]

Omg it worked! Thank you so much,i tried many others tutorials but this was IT! Nicely explained,and so logical!

[@fitzsteve]

Jiji Kent thanks for the message, glad it helped, the idea was to keep it as simple as possible as a very basic guide :)

[@mwinn23]

Mate, you are a legend for doing this, very very helpful, thanks you so much, this video could not have come at a better time for me, I'm just in the process of resurrecting my 1200 after many years of it being under my bed, this has no doubt saved me lots of headaches.

[@MaximumRD]

Thank you for your efforts bringing us this full tutorial!

[@Psylicium]

Great video. I just ordered a CF adaptor and 4GB card from Vesalia, and can't wait to follow your instructions, master :)

[@ericrose9945]

I’ve referenced this video so many times. Thank you !

[@fitzsteve]

Glad it helped 👍

[@honkybear666]

Hey Fitzsteve I can't think you enough. Your videos are invaluable. I'm sure you have saved many people lots of hours of frustration. I feel that people like yourself don't get enough recognition. Thanks so much for providing very detailed and awesome Amiga videos

[@fitzsteve]

Hi! Thanks for the kind comment :) I was lucky not to have any issues with either my ACA1220 or ACA1232 however it can be a bit of a lottery, good news is Amigakit can do the timing fixes if you need them. Also my A1200's have had the Caps replaced and I'm using an ATX PSU converted for the Amiga, this really helps too for a stable system.

[@fitzsteve]

Hi! I really hope it helps, I wrote this guide exactly for that reason, for Amigan's returning to the scene :)

[@ludovicjacomme1804]

Awesome tutorial, many thanks it was really helpful.

[@Quirkafleeg]

Thanks for the tutorial. Worked a treat :)

[@hucky29]

I actually got it to work, took all night though!

[@fitzsteve]

Glad it was useful, some info might be out of date now however :)

[@MichaelBennett1]

Outstanding tutorial. Thank you so much.

[@GigaJigg]

Great tutorial, thank you very much! **waits impatiently for CF IDE adapter to arrive**

[@holgerschmidt9751]

Pretty good job. Many thanks from Germany. I would like to see more....

[@tim7099]

Excellent tutorial, made installation pretty straightforward, thank you! Now all I have to do is find out why the A1200 refuses to boot with all 8mb of fast RAM enabled but is perfectly happy when configured for 4mb..........these things do come along to try us :-)

[@fitzsteve]

Tim Marshall Glad the tut was useful :) Do you have anything plugged into the PCMCIA slot? If so you need to remove it to use all 8mb, or if you have an Amitek Hawk Ram board this is a known issue, for some reason Classic Workbench does not seem to work with this board in the 8mb configuration. I was never able to work out why.

[@tim7099]

fitzsteve Hi Steve, I still have the 3.0 ROM so PCMCIA slot works fine with a normal HD (IBM 855mb) WB3.1 and 8mb but, refuses to boot with CWB and 8mb (load gets far enough for the anti click to kick in then stops). I presume that it's a Hawk, it looks like the ones shown on various posts, although one piece of software reported it as an Apollo.....Badge engineering? The 8 meg configuration wasn't trouble free even with the 2.5" drive. Each time a game was loaded in WHD I got a yellow recoverable alert, (press left mouse button to continue) but the game loaded normally after that. I guess that I will just have to put up with 4mb. I seem to recall having a problem with an accelerator board (030/25) putting the PCMCIA slot out of use back in the day and had to fiddle around with a long IDE cable to get my PCMCIA HD working. Some things don't change :-) Anyway, thanks for this and your other interesting videos!

[@thatguyontheright1]

This is what I love about the Amiga systems, they were future proof. I have an Atari 1040STf with a built in Hard Disk that I can not do anything like this to because Atari opted to use SCSI like Apple did...and it's not cheap to do anything like this with SCSI.

[@alex76gr]

Excellent tutorial! Way to go!

[@GG-mf7sg]

Thanks for your detailed explanation :)

[@AmonRA]

fitzsteve Thank you so much for this tutorial! I (Amiga newbie) managed to install Classic Workbench 68K on a CF with heaps of WHDLoad games running awesome on my A500 plus ACA-500 :-) Looks like the next step is to find myself an ACA1232 128Mo 030 - 40MHz - MMU!

[@fitzsteve]

Hi! I'm delighted the tutorial helped, I hope you enjoy your Amiga :) The ACA500 is awesome and will be even more awesome with an ACA1232 attached!

[@panantoni8440]

Greate tutorial! Thanks Mate!

[@fitzsteve]

Glad it helped!

[@glynharper]

Really useful vid. Many thanks!

[@fitzsteve]

Glad to help :)

[@elius1978]

Hi Steve. I have a weird issue about whdload games. Some games (shadow of the beast 3 for instance) freezes in real A1200 when i press the "F" buttons (F1, F2 for changing items). But in WinUAE, the same setup works fine with no freezes. I use A1200 Escom edition with blizzard 1230. As I understand it is either a matter of amiga hardware or it has to do with some codelines in whdload. I read somewhere about NOCACHE and NOMMU code lines that are put in the icon of the game. Do you have any idea about that? Thank you

[@Snowwie88]

@FitzSteve, how did you obtained the 1.3 Kick33192.rom file? According to the Cloanto site this file appears to be non-existent? (used at 21:50)

[@comankh]

totally forgot about 'max transfer' :) solved, thanks :)

[@fitzsteve]

Glad it helped, enjoy ;)

[@fitzsteve]

Glad I could help ;)

[@huankv]

Man thank you so much for this video.

[@fitzsteve]

Vladica Kojic My pleasure, I hope it helped :)

[@craiggilchrist4223]

Hey there im having trouble finding the settings tab at the top of the screen to tell the system where my games are. There just isnt an option at all?

[@Nico93]

i got the amiga 500+ would that run these compact things fine?.

[@fitzsteve]

Glad you liked the Vid, what would you like to see in a future tutorial?

[@jaromircihlar8218]

Just awesome job! Thank you very mouch! How difficult is installing of Classic Workbench 3.9 compared to the procedure in this tutoril?

[@paulwright2340]

hi Steve, I have the card set up and running, however, the games partition is full on my 4gb flash card. how can I add more games to the work partition as its empty? cheers

[@DigitalXAQ]

Quick query and hopefully you can help. I tried installing WB 3.1 on my 1200, With the HDD and with a 4GB flash card using WinUAE, both failed, I've been through hell and back trying to get it to work but no dice. Now I can get to the workbench grey/blue screen with Ramdisk etc showing but when I put a game in the icon will be "DF0:????" My locale, fonts discs show up normally, but system and install disks shows DF0:???? it worked fine before with games as I was playing Roadkill, Top Gear 2 etc.. What on earth have I done wrong and how do I fix this? Dying floppy drive, HDD etc? | have a gotek emulator which works thankfully..

[@fitzsteve]

Glad to help :)

[@dantonfireplaces]

great vid steve - very helpful and easy to follow! just a quick question did you have any issues with the 1232 card re timing issues? I've just got my CF card preloaded with s/w and games and am thinking of getting the same card you have

[@Mind-your-own-beeswax]

This upload is from a long time ago but I’m gonna be giving this a go on my 1200 in the next week. Hopefully nothing has changed in the last 11 years with settings etc.

[@fitzsteve]

Fundamentally nothing has changed this will still work on your Amiga, although there have been new versions of Workbench since which require updated Roms but it still works in very much the same way.

[@KarpowSCX]

Great tutorial! However, I am setting up A4000T ready with bigass 120GB HD to install OS3.1 (and OS3.9 later) but I can't remember right settings on HD tool box in order to make as big boot partition as possible. Is the maximum 2GB for boot partition? What are the right settings on HD tool box? I plan to install Real AmiKit on it later and full installation heaps atleast 500MB from boot partition. Can someone help?

[@fitzsteve]

Yes you can do it under emulation using adf images, you might need to use diskpart to clean the CF before winuae will let you write to it.

[@fitzsteve]

Glad to be of service :)

[@fitzsteve]

Which 8mb board do you use, not an Amitek Hawk by any chance? I had the same problem with Classic Workbench and the Amitek Hawk, strangely it work when jumpered down to 4mb...

[@ayeron75]

hello I wanted to ask which version of WinUAE uses?

[@RetroUnlim]

What happens if you setup and install this on a 2mb base system?

[@kierancoffey9826]

Hi mate great tutorial however when i get to the point extracting game files to the cf i get an error message that says error 0003 0007 task 00037df8 when i click the mouse i get the option to suspend or reboot any help or advice would be great, I am using classicwb 68k to install to an amiga 600

[@PMCRetroGamer]

Hi Steve i have a quick question. its about the kickstarts.lha bit. i'm a little hazy on that bit. i have bought "Amiga Forever" IMO is the best emulator, as you know it comes with workbench and roms. do i just take copies of the roms in the shared documents folder and rename them and place them into the devs folder??? and i right in thinking that?

[@fitzsteve]

***** Hi, thanks for your comment. I've not used Amiga Forever so I'm not sure, I assume that they will need to be re-named and you will need the RTB files, there should be some documentation with WHDLoad that explains what you need and where it goes.

[@rossmyers8448]

Great guide. One thing I noticed is that when I partitioned my 4Gb card the Amiga initially didn't see the two big partitions to be able to format them (I think they ended up around 1640Mb each), but when running ClassicWB DirOpus was able to see and format them no problem Now to copy all those WHDLoad games over. One question for those who know these CF card set ups well, once you have done one, can you do a 100% duplicate on to another card without going through all the set up stuff on a real Amiga? Basically cloning the card.

[@duskosavic7022]

Is there any chance to get up the system without the Amiga floppy drive because it's dead? Help and Thanks

[@gladiorosso9816]

same for Amiga600? where i find previews pics for games?

[@terjeson]

I have a amiga 600 with aca620 and a604, which would you recommend as my classic workbench, would I be able to run full or lite version ?

[@jimgiraffe5253]

hi fitzsteve could you make a video explaining how to partition a 16gb card ? i can following everything but you fly through that point i get lost and all other tuts are using older utilities :/ im looking to use classic workbench lite if you could help i would be very grateful

[@nickblack2006]

Can i just install workbench from my floppydiscs and then run winua to add games ?

[@Retrobution]

im trying this with a 8gb card. the steps are the same except before you partition the drive you need to load a shell program up. type in loadmodule.scsi device and reboot. it shows up the 8gb drive then in emulation and you can format. however when i run classicwb.hdf if boots to the desktop of classicwb not an install screen like what shows here. if i say run real install.adf of classicwb with my cf mounted it says cannot find system.zip in dh0. if i make the files into system.zip on dh0 and then do it it unpacks the zip and then stops half way and says dh0 is write protected! ive followed steps exactly too. read/write selected. etc :( totally stumped!

[@mwinn23]

Quick question if I may? What is the reason for not simply mounting the CF card in WnUAE and then installing ClassicWB directly to the CF card? Is there a reason for installing to a virtual HD then copying the files to the CF?

[@austingreen6042]

Hi there im using the latest os3.9 (v2.8 bloodywych) latest whdload and iGame and all my games have artwork in the folders, but no actually showing in i game. would you happen to know how to get these to show when i click on games in my igame list, it just shows the default igame picture, and great setup guide too btw ! :-)

[@themarcus9199]

Hello thanks for the tutorial. I am having a problem on my Amiga 1200 NTSC . everything goes fine until I put the drive back in the a1200 when it boots it flashes and scrolls, likes its in the wrong region. I have checked everything I can find that says NTSC. Do you know of something obvious I might be missing.

[@fitzsteve]

Yes indeed, it is the same for all types of drives however bare in mind you need to patch the scsi.device for drives over 4gb (see Classic Workbench tutorials on the CWB website) and you also need to install a fie system like SFS or PFS3, I'm hoping to a guide on that soon!

[@fitzsteve]

Hi Guys, thanks for the comments. I've been considering a guide for 8gb guides but it seems there are a lot of variables depending on file system used as some brands seem to be incompatible with certain file systems and require further patching, it can get a bit complex and I'm not sure I can cover all eventualities, a guide could end up causing further frustration. I think it's better to read the documentation for SFS and PFS3 for anyone who would like to experiment with larger CF's/HDD's.

[@Bullittphotography]

I am getting a "Software Failure - Program failed (error #80000003). Wait for disk activity to finish." Error after quitting for some WHDload games. I will also appear if I do a soft reset. I can only resolve it by powering the machine all. A1200 with Kingston 8GB CF card in partitions of ~200MB, 3700MB and 3600MB. Kick 3.0, WB 3.1, Blizzard 1230 with 32MB.

[@xalalalala]

The Apollo overrides the PCMCIA port with 3.1 rooms intalled I think... With 3.0 the port should work fine. Am I right?

[@blackIwaterIpark]

true MAGiC for me :-D many thanks !!!

[@treguard1982]

Is it me or does "Assign" seem to be missing from the LITE version? I've had to install that as only currently have 4mb fastram (looking to install 8mb) so quite a few games won't work or I get flashing/corrupted graphics.

[@treguard1982]

+treguard1982 Since posting this comment, I noticed that I did actually have 8mb fastram; it was just that the jumper was set to 4 lol.

[@fitzsteve]

Classic Workbench already includes the Compact Flash Device and Fat95 driver, you only need to type in CLI 'Mount CF0:' or move the file CF0 from Storage/DosDrivers to Devs/DosDrivers. Maybe you chose an install without the theme? You can add a wallpaper/backdrop by right clicking on the Workbench Bar & choose Scalos>Pattern :)

[@chrisshaw451]

thanks for this, where can I get that complete WHDload games pack from ? Cannot find a complete games pack option on the website mentioned.

[@chrisshaw451]

WHDload is now free, no registration required.

[@stevefitzgerald2185]

Hi I'm not sure these days, I got all mine back about 5 years and made a few updates via various sources over the years (none for 2+ years) sorry.

[@chrisshaw451]

OK, thanks.

[@petercli]

Steve, I just have one question. Can you elaborate on copying kickstarts.lha , which contains things like kick33180.a500 and kick33180.a500.rtb ? I own Amiga Forever, so can I just copy various .rom files from \Amiga Files\Shared om to devs\kickstarts folder ? What do I rename ? I don't see any .rtb files Thanks, PEter

[@fitzsteve]

Hi! Yes AmigaForever Roms should be fine, see here for details on RTB files: www.whdload.de/docs/en/need.html

[@Mr.plv767]

True, for a system where it is written once and read lots of times, then go CF, but if you have the hardware in your system to do it, then have the CF card in the system for games, and a physical HDD for productivity. Easy for like an A4000, maybe not for an A1200 :).

[@Drachenreiterklaus]

Can you tell me please how do i assign my DH1 and DH2 Harddrive to run Games with whdload and the game manager? Thank you

[@vodkamartini7545]

Great video. I just want to know at the start why you partitioned the CF card on the real Amiga before going over to the PC. Isn't it possible to do this from workbench 3.1 within the WinUAE emulator?

[@fitzsteve]

licence2kill Hi yes it's possible to do this in WinUAE, I chose real Amiga for my tutorial as some people have issues doing it on WinUAE

[@Tim_3100]

bit of information I found out after headaches it seems Kingston compact flash cause serious issues with workbench and the amiga , they wont format properly in my experience and I have seen HDtoolbox really mess up with them , I switched to temp using a old 4GB SDHC card & CF adaptor and that's fine with both HDtoolbox and Workbench no issue's in both quick format and full format modes both of which failed spectacularly with the Kingston CF card with this is not a vaild dos disk error's.

[@TheRealUpuout]

I serarch for a Amiga HDD Image with a full Systeminstall and WHD Load with all the Stuff for emulation on Retropi. Can a Image of this CF Card used for that?

[@fitzsteve]

Yes once you setup the Amiga emulation on the Pi you should be able to use a HD image, I'm sure there are tutorials for setting up Amiga emulation on the Pi

[@EXITMUSIC2011]

Good video

[@fitzsteve]

Thanks :D

[@huankv]

Hey Steve,could I use ClassicWB on Amiga with BVision ? I am getting some weird picture when boot CF on 1200T ...

[@fitzsteve]

Huan CA Hi, yes you can but avoid the versions with Scalos (Full/ADV/ADV SP) I recommend the OS3.9 version for your setup. Good luck with your project.

[@huankv]

fitzsteve Ok,thank you.

[@HardDiskLover]

Hi, I've been following the tutorial, but DH1 and DH2 wont show up on the workbench screen, only DH0. I've partitioned the drive now for the 7th time and still no DH1 or DH2. I don't have anything connected to the expansion ports, since when I plug my 8mb ram in the HDD won't show up. I have Kickstart 3.0 could this be what causes the problem? I've tried it with WB 3.0 and 3.1 but the other partitions (except DH0) wont show up. Also my A1200 wont read all disks only some like the Workbench disks (I use a floppy drive emulator). If anyone knows whats going on with my A1200 please tell me.

[@HardDiskLover]

I figured out what the problem was: My Kickstarts and the real time clock on my ram board were defective. I've removed the real time clock and replaced the kickstarts and now the HDD shows up correctly! Now to the Floppy drive: I did the Escom fix and now 99% of the discs work :-D **Thank you so much for posting this tutorial :-D**

[@Passwortabfrage]

Hi fitzsteve, thx for the guide. But i have a problem, after i start the Emulation. ERROR: can´t load keymap KEYMAPS: gb I can´t install the workbench, because the WIN UAE starts in another mode than yours. After LOAD HARDFILE - System. hdf - Start Can you help me ?

[@Passwortabfrage]

I get it. Was an destroyed Version of System.hdf thank you

[@fitzsteve]

Hi! You need to have minimum 37.300 Rom (you can see in the Kickstart Screen the version you have) you also need at least a trapdoor 1mb upgrade to run WHDLoad and some Fast Ram (PCMCIA SRAM) 2 or 4mb is recommended. Kipper2k at EAB & Amibay sells 4mb Fast Ram that clips over the CPU, well worth a look at too! The version of Classic Workbench for the A600 with 2.0 Roms is called GAAE :)

[@solfasoft]

thanks for the tutorial I have an amiga 600 hd original what can I do with it (as well as throw it in the trash)? what are the minimum technical characteristics must have it to load WHDLoad? thanks for your precious help :)

[@cicalone70]

I follow steb by step your inidcations, but when I put inside the CF into my REAL AMIGA 1200 (8M) don't START... the screen is BLACK

[@ElectricalSynapse]

Great tutorial. I have, however, a problem setting up three partitions on a 4GB flashcard. The partitioning goes fine, I have set MaxTransfer to 0x1FE00 (confirmed with enter), named the partitions DH0 (~200MB), DH1, and DH2 (~1800MB each). When I reboot, only DH0 and DH1 show up. This happens with 2 different 4GB CF cards, on a real A1200 and in WinUAE. Any thoughts why this happens?

[@fitzsteve]

Hi, that's a strange one, this normally only happens if you have a device over 4gb. Are you a member of English Amiga Board? There are some very knowledgeable members who might be able to help.

[@ElectricalSynapse]

fitzsteve Thanks for your reply. I will try the Amiga Board, thank you for the tip!

[@andylovelace4126]

Till Bockemühl Hi did you find a solution to this issue, as I'm having the same problem. I only see two drives after partitioning three. Andy

[@ElectricalSynapse]

Andy Lovelace Hey Andy. I got it to work actually. Please go to eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=69128 and use the programme "killpart". You can find a link in one of the posts there. Don't know what it does, but this did the trick for me. Hope it works for you, too. Till

[@fitzsteve]

Hi John K, Indeed you can setup an 8gb CF with 5 partitions but you must use another file system such as SFS or PFS3. I have used 8gb Kingston CF's, they worked fine but were not compatible with OS3.9 BB2's SCSI Update so I had to add the 'Skipromupdates "scsi.device' command, if you are using WB3.1 this isn't an issue :)

[@XXXXXX-dy5fs]

Has the Maxtransfer issue been resolved in WB 3.1.4?

[@fitzsteve]

Hi you don't need to change it for OS3.1.4 (if you have the Rom) however some hardware may still be effected

[@fitzsteve]

Could possibly be a faulty adapter?

[@paulmcnally]

Steve, great Tutorial thanks. Been following it it through having used an Amiga for the first time in 15 years. My install differs a little from yoours. I'm using a standard A1200 so I picked ClassicWB Lite but that was my only difference. However - my Directory Opus won't extract files. A double click brings up a grey screen with the archive list. Seems to be LHA running. Any ideas? Second - I have a WHDLoad key of my own I used when I was just emulating (I built an arcade cab a year back) the key works fine on that but it's not working at all on this. Still get the unregistered message. Again, any ideas? Best

[@fitzsteve]

Paul McNally Hi Paul, you should select the archive in Dopus (left window) and select path (in right window) then click the 'arc extract' button to unpack, does that help? All the best and thanks for your comment.

[@paulmcnally]

fitzsteve It does mate. I'm an idiot :-) Sorted that. Now for the WHDLoad key

[@savashiridismdmscphdfacs9943]

Great video. However for me the whole process gets stuck in the very beggining when Classic WB installation asks for a "valid workbench disk". I'm using freshly purchased Amiga Forever wb3.1 adfs but it still says : "not a valid workbench disk". I would appreciate any kind of help.

[@fitzsteve]

Hi there, I believe the issue here is that the Amiga Forever Disks are encrypted so you'll need to find a set of workbench ADFs via another method. Ps, thank you for watching

[@savashiridismdmscphdfacs9943]

@@fitzsteve thanks for the prompt reply!

[@MrTomppa12345]

is 16 gb aux card enough for games, will this tutorial for on A500+ machine aswell?

[@fitzsteve]

Hi! Yeah 16gb is massive for an Amiga, the whole WHDLoad Games pack is about 5.5gb, take out the AGA/CD32 Games that you wont use on your ECS Amiga and it's nearer 4.5gb. Add CD games, Demos, other stuff and you will still struggle to even fill 10gb :) I have 2x 8gb CF on my A1200 and have about 4gb free and I have a massive collection of MOD Music on there too as well as MacOS (ShaeShifter and big HDF's)

[@Wantar]

Awww that floppy sound. :)

[@fitzsteve]

IIRC there are two versions of Compact Flash Device on Aminet, you could try the other one :) I don't know what the Scalos issue is though, there is a support forum for Classic Workbench on the English Amiga Board.

[@fitzsteve]

Thanks :)

[@xalalalala]

Another thing... How do I use maprom with my 1232?

[@bamiga]

Have a problem here, when I read configuration in HdToolbox and want to proceed It wants to install it on the Install disk itself . The CF-card is completely clean and it shows up fine when I read the configuration ?!?

[@fitzsteve]

Hi! Copy HDToolBox to Ram Disk and try again :D

[@bamiga]

fitzsteve Thank you Steve, everything is installed and working fine now :-)

[@dazzla84_ssfc]

Ah right, will this process work with an A600 as long as you use the appropriate workbench version?

[@fitzsteve]

+nufcdazzla Yes it is exactly the same principle but the HDToolbox of 2.x is laid out differently so the steps will differ a bit. You can however get 3.1 Rom for your A600 and use Workbench 3.1 version (Classic Workbench 68k) Good luck. Just a side note, the A600's 1mb doesn't go very far!

[@xalalalala]

Humm by the way can you use whdload with OS3.9?

[@fitzsteve]

It can be quite complicated to get WinUAE to recognise the CF Card and allow you to partition it under emulation as Windows & WinUAE protect you from overwriting system (OS) drives. It's much easier to put an RDB in the CF card first and then WinUAE will let you do what you like with it! Classic Workbench needs to be activated first before you can use it, all the files are inside the HDF. It is possible to copy the contents of the HDF straight to your CF card and then activate with real Disks.

[@fitzsteve]

Hi! Max transfer probably isn't an issue with UAE's scsi.device, the scsi.device on the Amiga isn't compatible with modern ATA specs so that's why we have to limit the size of the data chunks, you wont notice any problems until you try to load a large file, they you will have corruptions. If you setup the CF correctly in WinUAE there is no reason you will have issues on the Amiga :)

[@pedrorq]

Hi Steve, tried using this tutorial, but at 4:55, when I press the "Read Configuration" button, I get an error: "drive does not support the scsi inquiry command!". I am using a 4gb Fuji CF card with an internal adaptor like this one: sordan.ie/product/340/angle-cf-25-ide-44-pin-hard-drive-adapter-compact-flash-amiga/ Any thoughts? :)

[@pedrorq]

Actually, unplugging the card (and the adaptor) and plugging everything back seemed to solve the issue for some unknown reason :)

[@fitzsteve]

Pedro Quaresma Glad to hear that :)