GUI: HDD

In this panel, you can add hard drives (or a CD drive) to the emulated Amiga. The drives can be a Directory, a Hardfile or even a real HDD device each. Additionally, you can create a new Hardfile with the relevant button here.

• Add Directory: You can use this button to select a directory on the filesystem, that will be used as a Hard drive inside the emulated Amiga.

You can provide the Device name (e.g. DH0:) the Volume Label (e.g. System), and the read/write and bootable properties for the drive here. You can also set the Boot priority (the default is 0).

And of course, you will have to select the path to the directory you want to use. Please note, that once you select a directory, the folder name of that directory will automatically be used as the Volume Name for convenience (you can of course change it if you don't want that).

• Add Hardfile: You can use this button to select a hardfile (e.g. *.hdf) to use as a hard drive inside the emulated Amiga.

You can select the Path to the hardfile, and set some of the properties here as well. The drive information (surfaces, sectors, etc.) will automatically be parsed from the hardfile itself, and usually don't have to be modified.

• Add Hard Drive: You can use this button to connect a real HDD (or SDcard or similar) device to the emulated Amiga. This will allow you to connect an Amiga-formatted drive for example, or even any other drive that you can then partition and format from inside Amiberry, if you want. Please note that you will need to have read/write permissions to the device you select here, in order for Amiberry to be able to use it properly.

The controller, unit and type dropdowns, allow you to select the (emulated) device the hard drive will be connected to, inside the emulated environment. One built-in device is provided (uaehf.device), along with the available emulated devices (IDE and SCSI, depending on what hardware you've chosen to emulate).

• Create HardFile: You can use this button to create a new Hardfile, which you can then attach to the emulated Amiga and use it as a hard drive device.

You can set a few options here, like the Device name, the boot priority, the size of the hardfile, and if it will be a Dynamic VHD one. A Dynamic hardfile can grow in side dynamically, instead of having a hard-coded size defined on creation.