Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:12:37 +0100 From: "Christopher Raven" <gurab@lineone.net> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <crtb@capecod.net>, <iaint@css.tuu.utas.edu.au> Subject: Re: Amiga diskettes on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <00db01bd682d$1c02bb40$0300a8c0@admin.cian.net>
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Amigas can read / write PC 1.44mb format disks using crossdos or similar, FreeBSD can read / write PC format disks using mtools or similar ......... if it is just the data you need, surely this is a possible answer ? Chris R. >> I would like to decipher Amiga diskettes, alas the 800KB kind, written in >> Amiga's "fast file system" format, and perhaps eventually write also. >> >> The FreeBSD floppy driver refers to 10- and 11-sector diskette tracks >> as "stressed formats" and more or less refuses to touch them. I get >> hard error messages; I'm careful to refer to /dev/fd0.720. There is >> no such thing as /dev/fd0.800, and the driver code disapproves. >> >Well, Amiga disks are also 880K, but thats a small detail. I have read a >comment (I think in comp.sys.amiga.hardware) that says that it is >impossible for PC floppy drives (or at least controllers) to read Amiga >disks because the Amiga disks are read a track at a time, rather than a >block at a time. > >There is also no filesystem available for FreeBSD that can decipher Amiga >disks that I know of. I believe that there is one for NetBSD, but I think >that might only work on m68k computers. > >A program/filesystem would not be that hard a task for people familiar >with the Amiga filesystem and the FreeBSD FS interface, but there is of >course the problem of endianness to consider as well. The hard part is >simply getting the disk image in the first place. > >> I'm currently running 2.2.2-RELEASE (yah, could be newer). Would an >> upgrade help? I'd be willing to help write a user-mode program to >> handle an Amiga raw disk image, if only the raw disk could be read. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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