From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 14 22:11:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA20993 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:11:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from boober.lineone.net (boober-be.lineone.net [194.75.152.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA20987 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 05:11:20 GMT (envelope-from gurab@lineone.net) Received: from admin.cian.net (host5-99-57-46.btinternet.com [195.99.57.46]) by boober.lineone.net (8.8.5/8.8.0) with SMTP id GAA16185; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:10:48 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <00db01bd682d$1c02bb40$0300a8c0@admin.cian.net> Reply-To: "Christopher Raven" From: "Christopher Raven" To: Cc: , Subject: Re: Amiga diskettes on FreeBSD ? Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:12:37 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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