Judging by posts on various forums, there seems to be some issue when saving in E-UAE on host filesystem (I´m using E-UAE 1.0 AmiGFX JIT). Eg. I want to run Ambermoon (HD installed RPG) and save progress to HDD, is it safe to run it via host filesystem (SFS2 in this case), or should I rather use hardfile?

@pavlor

I would use a hardfile. The OS4 builds all have this bug where filesystem HDD can crash and burn. It might be only for small writes around 20KB as I could get it by copying MultiView. But it happens a lot. Depending on filesysystem it will freeze system or just crash. Not good either way.

Last edited by Hypex on 21-Feb-2022 at 03:59 PM.

@Hypex

Thanks for info. Hardfile then (not a big issue with the help of diskimage.device and its GUI).

@Hypex

Thanks for the info too.I am using DiskImageGUI but when I load an AmigaSYS4 hdf file like a CD0 or CD1 for example,it doesn't appear the icon on Workbench.I don't know why really and...

Has anyone sorted this problem? How can I load and HDF file inside my X5000 with AOS 4.1.2?

Thanks again

I love my AmigaOne X5000 usability and instability

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AMIGA 500 1.5 MB ACA500/ACA1232 accelerators
AMIGA 500 German
CD32 unexpanded
Amiga 1200 Tower on AmigaKit since years
AMIGA 1300 030/50 Mhz/32 MB WB 3.9 with lots of games&demos
AMIGA ONE XE G3 PPC 800 Mhz/1 GB RAM/RADEON 9250 128 MB/SATA CONTROLLER

@newlight

Do not mount HDF as ICD0/ICD1, mount it as IDF0 or IDF1. Works for me.

@pavlor

Yes I tried but...

It doesn't mount the AmigaSYS4 HDF file on WB.

May I download the A1200&4000 ASYS4 version instead?

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AMIGA 500 1.5 MB ACA500/ACA1232 accelerators
AMIGA 500 German
CD32 unexpanded
Amiga 1200 Tower on AmigaKit since years
AMIGA 1300 030/50 Mhz/32 MB WB 3.9 with lots of games&demos
AMIGA ONE XE G3 PPC 800 Mhz/1 GB RAM/RADEON 9250 128 MB/SATA CONTROLLER

@pavlor

Using a hardfile is very slow compared to filesystem but works better.
I use filesystem because i have a quite bloated workbench that takes way too long to load from a hardfile and somehow i actually got it to accept writing.
I get a dsi on the first write but then it works.

I have a dedicated partition for my UAE system at around 2gb with sfs filesystem, maybe that is the reason that it works for me.

@newlight

Is it an actual HDF? Not a CD image? Does DiskImage say it's mounted?

Maybe try opening the image from Workbench after showing all files. May only work on some files but I can mount OS4 CD images that way. Does DiskImage give any indication it is mounted? Do any DOS devices show up in DirOpus or similar tool?

The only other thing I can think of is that your HDF is a full HDD image with RDB. And I don't know if that is supported, What is inside it?

@smf

I do actually have my Work volume set as virtual Work partition for UAE. But I can only use it for read only. It's a bit silly but lots of times I want to install some 68K software using a 68K installer. How ever I can't because it crashes and wrecks it. So I need to install 68K software using the installer on OS4 so I can run it inside UAE. And hope it works. Ridiculous!