[uae] Re: missing hardfile docs

  • From: Richard Drummond <evilrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:27:14 -0500

Hi Don

On Thursday 17 March 2005 09:59 pm, Don Venhaus wrote:
> I noticed that in the latest e-uae (0.8.27) we lost some of the docs
> that came with the old uae. I had to go back to find some info about
> hard files. The old docs have an example, and the mountlist entry for
> wb 1.2.
>
> But I still can't get it to work. The hardfile does show up in the gui
> hardisks page, and it seems to mount ok, but when I try to format it,
> I get...
>
> format failed -
> cannot find handler

Hmmm. I'll look into this. I'll have to dig out a WB1.2 set-up to test. I 
think have a 1.2 ROM somewhere...

> Is the device still uaehf.device ?

Yes. From the error message above, it sounds like it cannot find the 
filesystem handler - not the device.

> BTW, it works fine under 3.0, where no mountlist entry is required.

Can you attach a copy of the mountlist you're using?

Cheers,
Rich

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