Amiga HDs to .HDF for emulation?

From: Gareth Knight <gareth.knight_at_btinternet.com>
Date: Thu Jul 5 18:17:07 2001

----- Original Message -----
From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 6:58 PM
Subject: Amiga HDs to .HDF for emulation?


>
> It's always embarassing for me to have to ask Amiga questions
> here, but here goes...
>
> I'd like to make archival copies of the hard disk partitions
> in an A2000 and an A4000. I've got network cards and NFS running,
> so I want to find a tool for the Amiga that will convert a hard
> disk partition to an .HDF file that will mount under WinUAE.
>
> For example, I'd mount my NT machine's P: drive as NTp: on
> the Amiga, and the utility would write directly to "NTp:foo.hdf".
>
> I tried this once before with 'packdev' and no compression,
> but the results apparently weren't .HDF files and crashed
> the WinUAE emulator.
>
> Am I missing something obvious, like that the ADF-based tools
> will work with hard disks, too?
>
> - John
>
Received on Thu Jul 05 2001 - 18:17:07 BST