Amiga HDs to .HDF for emulation?

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Thu Jul 5 18:04:33 2001

John Foust skrev:

>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.

I did archival copies today, but they're on a DDS tape. =)

>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.

Haven't they once changed the format too, or was that just the addition of the
.HDF extension?

>Am I missing something obvious, like that the ADF-based tools
>will work with hard disks, too?

I recall reading a document about how someone transferred his HD to a HDF
file, and I actually believe that he used Transdisk. OTOH you could try
connecting the drives directly to the PC and do a "dd" or similar.
Well, at least it's doable.
Another idea would be to start UAE, install AmiTCP, or at least amiganetfs,
and transfer the disk contents that way.

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