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  To: Ross Vumbaca
  Re: Re: Disk Imaging for poserity sake
  By: Ross Vumbaca to aus.computers.amiga on Mon Jan 24 2011 01:15:48

Thanks Ross 8-)



 > From Newsgroup: aus.computers.amiga
 > 
 > On 22/12/2010 17:14, Geo wrote:
 > 
 > > I have almost finished imaging all my Amiga SW. It has only taken 2 years of
 > > an d on 8-)
 > >
 > > I am down to my last few disks which was from my AMAX and Transformer
 > > emulators.
 > > I was just wondering if anyone has some idea's on how I can image the actual
 > > MAC and IBM DOS disk's from within AmigaOS?
 > >
 > > I tried just making ADF's of them, and as expected it was a big FAIL. 8-)
 > >
 > > I had thought that maybe I could make ADF's if I used crossdos for IBM disks
 > > and a MAC equivalent of crossdos (if it exists) for the MAC disks, to enable
 > > new compatible devices?
 > >
 > > Thanks for any ideas 8-)
 > 
 > You can't make ADFs of non-Amiga disks, and even if you could, it
 > wouldn't work in an emulator because ADF does not emulate at that low a
 > level, it only emulates at the block level (where it expects Amiga
 > format). I don't think crossdos would work, because I think it runs on
 > top of trackdisk, but the program to create ADFs calls upon trackdisk
 > directly (not the file system). Even if it somehow worked, it would
 > never mount in an emulator..
 > 
 > To image a PC disk or a MAC disk, you're best off using tools for those
 > platforms, i.e use 'dd' or 'rawwrite'
 > (http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite) to image your PC disks, and
 > whatever a MAC uses for a MAC (although you'll probably have to run an
 > emulator to do that!).
 > 
 > Regards,
 > 
 > Ross..
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Regards........Geo
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