I tried plugging a very old 540MB IDE HDD into a modern computer, and using WinImage to make an image file for DOSBox.
WinImage can see the contents of the drive just fine, but when I run
imgmount c "386d2.IMA" -t hdd -size 512,63,16,1020
This is the result
What might I be doing wrong?
The geometry isn't right, yuo shouldn't have 4gb free. Have you tried without the -size parameter?
Without -size, it says
Could not extract drive geometry from image.
Use parameter -size bps,spc,hpc,cyl to specify the geometry.
My source for the geometry is the sticker on the hard drive, which says:
Drive Parameters: 1048 cyl, 16 heads, 63 spt, 540.8MB
It's a Western Digital Caviar 2540. I do think it's formatted for 503MB instead of 540.8MB though.
Also, I think it might be FAT, but DOSBox is trying to load it as FAT32. How do I specify just FAT?
wrote:but DOSBox is trying to load it as FAT32.
I don't think standard DOSBox even has support for FAT32. Anyway, as per the readme, you might need to specify "-fs fat".
Does WinImage tell you what geometry it detects for the image?
I tried "-fs fat", with no change. When mounted, the second window in DOSBox says
Using partition 0 on drive; skipping 1684955424 sectors
Loaded image has no magicnumbers at the end!
Mounted FAT volume is FAT32 with 16842699 clusters
So I think it's trying to mount as FAT32.
Where do I go in WinImage to look at drive geometry? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
