[uae] Re: Will there be a upcoming E-UAE release?
- From: Andrew 'Truck' Holland <truck@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:30:41 +0200
On Mo, 24 Nov 2008, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> > I mean a single partition on an RDB hardfile. Creating a "blank"
> > hardfile with dd and parted (for the "amiga" disk label) results in a
> > device that is unrecognised by uae; HDtoolbox and format. There's just
> > nothing there.
>
> Again the question: why partition it? You can create a plain
> unpartitioned amiga HD and format it under AmigaOS. Why do you think it
> needs an RDB?
It doesn't, but it _is_ nice to have them. Especially when you're trying to
build a drive for another _real_ machine, and write it back using dd or
something.
Yes, I end up doing this far too often.
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