I should add, the disk I imaged was the original RISC PC disk which was a Conner CFS420A (https://www.computerhope.com/hdd/hdd0020.htm <https://www.computerhope.com/hdd/hdd0020.htm>) with 63 sectors and 16 heads as required….
> On 27. Apr 2020, at 20:42, Peter Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi guys! > > I installed the new RPCEmu, and managed to dump an image of my RISC PC 600 > hard drive using `dd` on linux. > > I copied the raw hard disk image to the RPCEmuDataDir as hd4.hdf and have > RISC OS 3.60 roms in place. > > I followed the instructions on https://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/manual/#hdf > <https://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/manual/#hdf> but when i run the first command > I get the following error: > > <Screenshot 2020-04-27 at 20.33.10.png> > > RISC OS 24MB > > Supervisor > > *dir aufs::4.$ > > Disc drive not known (Error number &108AC) > * > > > My setup looks like this: > > > pmoore@Petes-iMac:~ $ cat ~/Library/Preferences/org.devrx.RPCEmu.plist > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" > "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd > <http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd>"> > <plist version="1.0"> > <dict> > <key>NSNavLastRootDirectory</key> > <string>~/Downloads/classicroms/RiscPC_A7000/RO_370/DiscImage</string> > <key>NSNavPanelExpandedSizeForOpenMode</key> > <string>{712, 459}</string> > <key>RPCEmuDataDir</key> > <string>/Users/pmoore/riscpc</string> > <key>RPCHotKeysGrabbed</key> > <false/> > </dict> > </plist> > > > and here you see the hard drive file: > > pmoore@Petes-iMac:~ $ ls -l /Users/pmoore/riscpc/ > total 841744 > -rw-r--r--@ 1 pmoore staff 256 21 Mar 2017 cmos.ram > -rw-r--r-- 1 pmoore staff 426360832 27 Apr 20:23 hd4.hdf > drwxr-xr-x@ 3 pmoore staff 96 19 Mar 2017 hostfs > drwxr-xr-x@ 4 pmoore staff 128 15 Feb 2016 poduleroms > drwxr-xr-x@ 5 pmoore staff 160 15 Feb 2016 riscos-progs > drwxr-xr-x@ 4 pmoore staff 128 19 Mar 2017 roms > -rw-r--r--@ 1 pmoore staff 243 21 Mar 2017 rpc.cfg > > > Does the raw device file produced by dd need to be altered in any way for it > to work? > > On https://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/manual/#hdf > <https://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/manual/#hdf>, I couldn’t see exactly what > format the hdf files need to be, so naively just tried using the raw file > produced by dd, but suspect that might be the issue? > > Thanks for anyone that can help, or redirect me to a better forum to ask the > question. > > Kind regards, > Pete > > P.S. The dd command I used was `sudo dd of=hd4.hdf if=/dev/sdb` which > generated the 420MB file which matches the size of the original hard drive. > Running e.g. `strings hd4.hdf | grep Acorn` shows that the import seemed to > work (there are lots of references to Acorn in the dump). > > >> On 24. Apr 2020, at 18:58, Timothy Coltman <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 24 Apr 2020, at 12:26, Tim Powys-Lybbe <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> I have tried to file some comments on GitHub but cannot find where to post >>> them. Guidance most welcome as I cannot get the program to run with a >>> filesystem. >>> >> >> There is a new release of 0.9.2a that fixes this issue. My packaging script >> was not including the "poduleroms" folder, which contains the modules for >> HostFS and its Filer module. It was also including the "riscos-progs" >> folder which isn't required in a binary build. >> >> You can download this from the same place as before: >> >> https://github.com/Septercius/rpcemu-dev/releases >> <https://github.com/Septercius/rpcemu-dev/releases> >> >> Tim >> >> _______________________________________________ >> RPCEmu mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu >
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