John Foust skrev:
>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."
Well, all right, but then wouldn't a grab of the HD result in those attributes
being saved, or do UAE hardfiles lack a real rigid disk block?
>>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.
Probably the programmer doesn't either, but wants to be on the safe side. =)
>>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.
I'm not recommending that you use NFS, or that you save the files into a
Windows folder, but that you set up a hardfile in UAE tpo copy the contents
into.
Since you then would have a hardfile with a real Amiga filesystem (well, as
real as a hardfile might be), and would be using amiganetfs (which is not the
same as NFS), a filesystem which works on a very low level, the copy would be
just the same as if you had done the copy between two drives on the same bus.
I've done backups between Amigas using amiganetfs, and all attributes are
saved. I just did an ls of the backup, and it contained file comments and all
that.
>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.
That's why you should do the copy straight between the Amiga and the emulated
environment, without passing through any alien file systems or network
protocols.
>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!
About as handy as you get with an emulator...
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Received on Fri Jul 06 2001 - 15:17:08 BST