Re: [hatari-users] Hatari hard disk emulation does not work with raw block devices

[Emmanuel Kasper <emmanuel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le 27/10/2014 18:14, Nicolas Pomarède a écrit :
> Le 27/10/2014 17:20, Emmanuel Kasper a écrit :
> > Hi
> > I am using SD cards as storage media on my the STE via the Ultrasatan
> > Controller. Copying a sd card via dd allows me to start hatari with the
> > disk image the following way:
> >
> > hatari --acsi disk.img
> >
> > Now I was thinking such call would also work
> >
> > hatari --acsi /dev/sdb
> >
> > but hatari fails with
> >
> > Error while parsing argument "/dev/sdb" for option "--acsi":
> > Given file doesn't exist (or has wrong file permissions)!
> >
> > I have seen other emulators working with raw devices like qemu
> > As I am sure I have the right permission  ( I can "stat" and "dd" the
> > block device) what is exactly the pb there ?
>
> Hi,
>
> you should try the current dev version, other people reported a similar
> problem and thomas committed a fix for this on 12 Oct 2014 :
>
> http://mercurial.tuxfamily.org/mercurialroot/hatari/hatari/rev/6ff33df519ca

Indeed it works ( tried with the ACSI image from 
http://joo.kie.sk/?page_id=332 )

manu@django:~/atari/hard disk images$ hatari --acsi /dev/sdd
VDI screen: request = 1024x768@1, result = 1024x768@1
Hatari v1.8.0, compiled on:  Oct 27 2014, 19:32:26
.....
.....
Mounting ACSI hard drive image /dev/sdd

Thanks and by the way <3 for mercurial and cmake :)

Manu