Well, that's annoying... (AFS disk images)

[chiark]

I've set up Amiga Explorer, and managed to get a stable connection of 56kbps through serial from my 4000/Warpengine 040.

I decided to drag my hard disk images over to back up everything with the intention of running under emulation or the like.

After 18 hours, one partition was downloaded in full.

Problem is, I used AmiFileSafe.  Nothing appears to understand AFS, so I'm left with a fairly useless disk image.  Oh balls.

So it looks like I'm onto plan B: dragging the directories across.  Plan C is starting to appeal, too, which involves putting my unused Plextor CD-Writer in the 'mig and writing everything to CD.  I quite like that as a better solution "long term".

No real content to this message, I just wanted to share my frustration  :lol:

Cheers,
Nick.

[chiark]

Thanks for the suggestions Thomas.  I'm a little reluctant to try and plug the drive into the PC for fear of it wiping the drive out  :-o , but I do wonder if I can plug a spare small drive into the 4000 and transfer stuff that way.

The master drive is sitting on the SCSI bus of the WarpEngine, so I have a spare IDE interface in the 4000 doing nothing.

I seem to remember back in the mists of time something called Fat95 on Aminet which allowed access to PC-style disks - including FAT12/16/32 hard disks.  I might have to dig that out...

Blimey, this will involve using HDToolbox again, which is a slightly scary prospect after all these years!  Back in 1993, I wrote the HD Installer script for First Computers which I was quite proud of... Now?  I can't remember a thing!

Whilst I'm digging around, I might as well put the Plextor IDE writer in there.

IIRC, the IDE device driver for the 4000 is "scsi.device", isn't it?

[chiark]

follow Fat95's manual to mount the drive.

The manual?  Seriously, it really is a good job you told me that otherwise I'd have probably hacked on through and got *very* frustrated.  Having just read it, it sounds straightforward enough :-D, and of course formatting/partitioning on the PC is a much better idea.  Sometimes my idiocy is quite stunning :-)

But you need a CD writing software anyway and the ones I know will search any device and present you a list of connected writers.

I'll give the freeware "CDOnFire" alpha solution listed on the news section of this site a try (once I've got everything backed up onto a spare drive, and safely read on my PC!).  

I must admit the amount I've forgotten about the workings of Amigas is quite horrific, but it's slowly coming back to me  :-)

Thanks again for your help, it really is appreciated.
Nick.

[chiark]

Well, CDOnFire crashed and burned on my machine (bad pun, sorry), so I've used a 1.5GB IDE drive as a transfer disk.

Fat95 is excellent, and worked first time without any fuss.