PiStorm Emu68 Format Drives (Amiga)

once you have the emu68 installed on an sd card with the type 76 partitions, you will need to format it a little differently than a standard ide hard drive a much easier way than doing all these steps below manually is to simply use emu68 imager it not only formats the sd card in windows, but allows you to specify the amiga partitions and it even pre installs the workbench files on there for you too! boot up into any workbench install disk, like 2 04 or 3 1 go to the hdtools > hdtoolbox file on the disk, but do not double click it single left click to select it, then hold right click and navigate to the top menu and select icons > information or press a +i edit the line scsi device name=scsi device changing scsi device to one of the following depending on where you are running from, then click save pi zero2, pi3a+, pi3b, pi3b+ should use brcm sdhc device pi 4b+ and cm4 should use brcm emmc device for winuae emulated use uaehf device this configures the hdtoolbox to look for the partitions we made on the sd card from this point on format the drives in the same way you would for any other install typically, this is a 200mb partition for the os, and the rest for files do not format the scsi 0 device (that is the 200mb fat32 emu68 drive) set drive type select the other drives (in our example we only made one more), and click change drive type the list should be empty click define new > read configuration > continue then ok twice if you get an error cannot read from drive definitions! this is a corrupt file in the hdtoolbox folder on the drive/floppy close out, go back to the folder with the hdtoolbox file in, press a + shift + + to show all files and then delete the folder drive definitions partition drive now the drive is configured as the correct type and size, it is time to make some partitions with the new drive selected, click partition drive by default it shows 2 partitions split evenly drag the middle arrow to the left to set the first partition to around 200mb we will install the workbench here want to buy pre made and upgraded amiga computers? visit retrosix co uk check advanced options and change the name from tdh0 to dh0 now look at the bar at the top the black is the current partition we have selected and is 200mb the middle will now be empty, and the right side is a crosshatch pattern this crosshatch is the second partition click it and drag it all the way to the left so it touches the first black partition now drag the arrow all the way to the left (or as big as you want the partition) if using workbench 3 1 onwards you can have as large a partition as you like, but for best compatibility keep them under 4gb per partition before clicking new parition make sure you already have a previous one selected, then after clicking new partition click in the unused blank area rename this second partition and future ones to dh1 , dh2 and so on with all that done, click save changes to drive then exit if it doesn't prompt you, restart with ctrl + a + a to restart then the new blank unformatted partitions should show in workbench format drives we now have the drives but they are not formatted the last step is to select each drive that appears in workbench as something like dh0\ uninitialized with the format tool left click one of the drive icons, then hold right click, and go to icons > format disk give the partition a name, typically os , work , games or similar most installers and applications expect a system directory (will be auto discovered as its the booted partition), and a work partition so, it is advised to make at least one partition labelled work click quick format to finish the job once done you should be left with icons on your workbench for each partition the final step will be to install the workbench you would like onto the first partition so it auto boots from that