GUI HDD
This panel manages hard drives, directories, CD-ROM drives, and tape drives mounted in the emulated Amiga. It supports virtual filesystems (host directories), hardfile images, physical drives, CD images, and tape images.
A table listing all currently mounted storage devices with the following columns:
-
Device — The Amiga device name (e.g.,
DH0,CD0) or controller identifier for IDE/SCSI devices - Volume — The volume label shown in Workbench, or the device type (HDF, CD, TAPE) for hardware devices
- Path — The file or directory path on the host system
-
R/W — Read/Write (
RW) or Read-Only (RO) access mode - Size — Storage size (KB, MB, or GB)
-
Boot — Boot priority value (higher numbers boot first;
n/afor hardware devices)
Click a row to select it. The selected entry can then be edited or removed using the action buttons.
- Mounts a host directory as an Amiga virtual filesystem volume.
- Opens the Volume Settings dialog.
- Mounts a hard disk image file (
.hdf,.hdz,.lha,.zip,.vhd,.chd,.7z). - Opens the Hardfile Settings dialog.
- Mounts a physical hard drive from the host system.
- Opens the Add Hard Drive dialog showing detected physical drives.
- Adds a CD-ROM drive entry (physical device or image file).
- Opens the CD Drive Settings dialog.
- Adds a tape drive entry (directory or image file).
- Opens the Tape Drive Settings dialog.
- Opens the settings dialog for the currently selected mounted drive.
- Only available when a drive is selected.
- Removes the currently selected drive from the mounted drives list.
- Only available when a drive is selected.
- Creates a new blank hardfile image.
- Opens the Create Hardfile dialog.
- Automatically mounts CD/DVD drives detected on the host system into the emulated Amiga.
- Reads CD data faster than real hardware speed.
- Enables or disables the primary CD drive slot.
- Selects the CD image or physical device to use.
- The dropdown lists detected physical CD drives and recently used CD images.
- Click
Ejectto remove the current CD. - Click
...to browse for a CD image file (.cue,.iso,.ccd,.mds,.chd,.nrg).
Opened when adding or editing a directory (virtual filesystem) mount.
- The Amiga device name (e.g.,
DH0,Work).
- The name shown in Workbench for this volume.
- The host directory or archive file to mount.
- Click
... Dirto browse for a directory. - Click
... Archto browse for an archive file (.zip,.7z,.rar,.lha,.lzh,.lzx).
- Allows writing to this volume. Uncheck to make the volume read-only.
- Enables booting from this volume.
- Numeric boot priority (-128 to 127). Higher values boot first. Set to -128 to disable autoboot.
Opened when adding or editing a hardfile image mount.
- Path to the hardfile image. Click
...to browse.
- Enables manual specification of drive geometry parameters instead of auto-detection.
- Number of disk surfaces (heads).
- Number of sectors per track.
- Number of reserved blocks at the start of the disk.
- Sector size in bytes (typically 512).
- Selects the controller type (UAE filesystem, IDE, SCSI, etc.).
- The unit number on the selected controller.
- The Amiga device name for this hard drive.
- Allows writing to this hardfile. Uncheck to make it read-only.
- Enables booting from this hardfile.
- Numeric boot priority (-128 to 127).
- Size of the new hardfile in megabytes.
- Creates a sparse file that only uses host disk space as data is written.
- Creates the hardfile with a Rigid Disk Block, making it partitionable.
- Location and filename for the new hardfile. Click
...to browse.
- Lists physical drives detected on the host system. Select one to mount it.
- A warning is shown if the selected drive is currently mounted by the host OS.
- Allows writing to the physical drive.
- Enables booting from this physical drive.
- Selects the controller interface type.
- The unit number on the selected controller.