Retrofun ver. 4 UltraSatan

[Bikerbob]

This is the device I am trying to get working.

I was using a Micro Cosmosex - I had several microsd cards with HDdriver on them.. all worked great. Almost exclusively used on a MegaSTE.

now I am trying to read those same cards on a UltraSatan (this Retrofun version) which uses microsd cards. PPera driver cards.. work no problem. But HDDriver cards are not being seen at all. In fact on the megaST I am trying to use, I am also seeing an IDE bus. There is nothing else in this machine except a ADspeed accelerator.

Anyway something on this could be seen as an extra bus? Also trying to get a Netusbee to be see and used on this 1.4 MegaST.. but I could not read the HDdriver cards.. and I am seeing a mystery IDE buss.. so the fact that I can load the Netusbee drivers, but cannot see any USB cards.. is not the major worry right now.

Would appreciate any ideas - maybe there are removable media settings that would help with this?? None that I read seem to make any difference here.

James

[Bikerbob]

I was going to upload photos to show, but seems like the forum will not allow it. So I am hosting them here.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

James

[uweseimet]

Looks as if your accelerator results in the IDE interface hardware addresses being accessible even though there are no IDE ports. You can simply ignore this.

Regarding your SD cards this might be a byte-swapping issue. In this case you should ensure that (from the ACSI, i.e. from the UltraSatan perspective) your cards are not byte-swapped. HDDRUTIL tells you in the "Partitioning" dialog window whether a medium is byte-swapped. If this is the case HDDRIVER cannot boot from it.
The CosmosEx might provide a setting related to byte-swapping, or has it built-in. You can just give it a try by partitioning a card in the UltraSatan, with byte-swapping switched off in the partitioning compatibility options, and then install HDDRIVER on it. Now check whether the CosmosEx can boot from it.

Please also see the HDDRIVER FAQ for information on byte-swapping.

[Bikerbob]

Uwe, there is a picture in my share now.. I got one to boot. a different card.. beside the partition type there is a (.B) does this mean byte swapped?

[uweseimet]

No, the "." means that this is a partition suitable for installing a bootable HDDRIVER. Please consult the manual about this.

The partitioning dialog will explicitly display "byteswapped" for media that are byteswapped.

[Bikerbob]

Then no.. they are not byte swapped. and that one that had the (.B) already has your driver on it.

James

[Bikerbob]

Those screen shots are what I am getting.

I could try RE-installing your driver.. the question becomes what wiped it off of 3 microsd cards.. but the rest of the card and partitions etc..are fine.

James