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Using a Real Amiga Harddisk.

Add these options to your .fs-uae config file.

To find the HD name follow these steps, and issue the following command from option 5 on the Utilities Menu.

lsblk

Take a note of the drive number and partition number, all of the hd’s will be listed.

Ie: (My work station. SDA my boot drive, SDB my data drive)

vk3heg@vk3heg ~ $ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 51.2G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 42G 0 part /
├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 9.3G 0 part [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 465.8G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 465.8G 0 part /home

Then follow these steps.

Change your *.fs-uae config file as required.

Full drive

hard_drive_1_controller = uaehf.device
hard_drive_1_type = rdb
hard_drive_1 = /dev/sdd

Partition number two

hard_drive_2_controller = uaehf.device
hard_drive_2_type = rdb
hard_drive_2 = /dev/sdd2

Restart FS-UAE, you will then have access to the Amiga formatted drive.

If doing a new install, you need to change the tooltype of HDToolbox
for the SCSI_DEVICE_NAME to “uaehf.device”