Basic question about dreamshell and HDD

[jose_leandro]

Hi

First: My apologies if I make basic questions about dreamcast/dreamshell/gdi diles: I don't know very much about this system.

Second. I have a dreamcast and I would like to preserve its gd-rom (it can read original CD and CD-R but It only like TDK )

For this reason, I made the mod for HDD. I take it from this post:

http://www.dc-swat.ru/forum/thread-1902.html

I think I did it well but I'm not be able to load any game.

For tests, I use 2 HDD

- Seagate 40 gb (slave)
- Compact flash samdisk 1G (and a HDD-CD adaptor) (slave)

- dreamshell 4.0 rc2 and rc3

Nightmare_creatures_II_pal.gdi

-load a CD-R with dreamshell (any of two version)
-press isoloader
-Dreamcast detect a CD and a HDD
-press HDD
-it appear the Nightmare_creatures.gdi
-press in this file. It appears the image of the disc (nice)
-press again
-Dreamcast say that It begins to load
-black screen ( in the lcd of the pad put the image of the game).


I read that some games don't work. Yesterday I found this other post:

http://www.dc-swat.ru/forum/thread-2145.html

I download the game zombie Revenge.cdi and try it

-I load a CD-R with dreamshell (any of two version)
-press isoloader
-Dreamcast detect a CD and a HDD
-press HDD
-it appear the zombie Revenge.cdi
-press in this file. It doesn't appear the image of the disc
-press again
-Dreamcast say that It begins to load but it shows this error message: CD/GD is not iso9660 / can't mount gdi to /isoldr
(I burn the cdi in a CD and it works)

I would like to ask:
- Do I have to change anything in the gdi image?
- Do I have to add anything to the HDD?
- What game / program you recommended for test the HDD?
- Any tutorial I have to read?

Thanks :-)

José Leandro
Spain