Amiga HDs to .HDF for emulation?

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Fri Jul 6 08:47:43 2001

At 12:04 AM 7/6/01 +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>I recall reading a document about how someone transferred his HD to a HDF
>file, and I actually believe that he used Transdisk.

According to the HDF file format docs, an HDF differs from an
ADF (floppy) file in that it has "a bootblock, a rootblock, a
[block] bitmap and perhaps dircache blocks."

>OTOH you could try
>connecting the drives directly to the PC and do a "dd" or similar.

I saw a tool to do that, but it warned that sometimes the
drive becomes unreadable. It doesn't sound like a read-only
tool. I don't understand why they'd write to the disk if I didn't
ask it to.

>Another idea would be to start UAE, install AmiTCP, or at least amiganetfs,
>and transfer the disk contents that way.

I think I'd lose information. I don't trust the mapping of filename
characters, for example. I doubt Amiga file comments would be
preserved via NFS, too.

As I said, I've already got an NFS link to my PC. I can easily
"copy dh10:#? NTp: all" and send the files as files to my PC, but
I don't want to spend hours figuring out which files were lost.

Having an HDF file on my PC would be delightful. I installed
a Windows program called ADF View. It's a Windows Explorer extension
for ADF and HDF files, meaning now those two file extensions have
their own icon linked to this program, and when you click on
an HDF file, it opens a new Explorer window and lets you
browse the HDF file as if it were part of the Windows file system.
Very handy!

- John
Received on Fri Jul 06 2001 - 08:47:43 BST