Disk Imaging for poserity sake

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2 total messages Started by Geo Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:14

#933

Author: Geo
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:14

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Hi All,

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-)

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Re: Disk Imaging for poserity sake

#934

Author: Ross Vumbaca
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:15

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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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