Reading amiga hd on windows/linux?

[Tempest]

My A1200 appears to be dying a slow death. It has bootup problems which I suspect may be related to the accellerator. I won't likely be able to replace the accellerator for some time...
 
I have no way to transfer the files off the 1200 when it does boot, so I wondered, can I get a 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch hard drive adapter and read the drive with windows or linux pc's?

I desperately want to copy off my collection of games and graphics applications for later use (or use in uae) but I have no idea how to go about this. Any advice?

Steven

On Debian (what I use) FFS is supported out of the box, just mount your drive with 'mount -t affs /dev/your_drive /mnt/amiga'. If you're using SFS you need to recompile the kernel with the SFS filesystem enabled.

It's also possible to mount your drives with E-UAE but I've never tried that.

[Tempest]

I just ordered a 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch ide adapter so I can plug this drive into my linux pc and hopefully save the data. Its partitioned into system, work and games, I hope that won't matter?
 
Steven

That doesn't matter, the partitions just shows up in '/dev' as sda1, sda2, sda3 or hda1, hda2, hda3 (depending what linux distro you use).

You have to mount each partition with the command mentioned in previous posts. You also have to create directory's in '/mnt' or whatever directory you want to use as mount point, like system, work and games. Assuming you are using FFS, as root type 'mkdir /mnt/system' and then 'mount -t affs /dev/sda1 /mnt/system' to mount the first partition (system) as '/mnt/system'.