I've got a dataflyer 500 ide hooked up to my A500.
Originally, I used two hard drives with it, and am now looking to combine the contents of the drives onto a single 4GB compact flash drive.
I've got the flash drive formatted and booting.
The source files are just under 2gb. I can store an imaged or compressed copy AND still have room for the actual files.....
I've used 'dd' within linux to image the drives, have "conv=swab"'d them, and have mounted them within WinUAE. I've also imaged the empty 4gb flash drive, and have that mounted as well into WinUAE.
I need to copy multiple partitions from each drive onto the flash drive, but there's a few issues:
* The dataflyer disk partitioning tool during setup is a piece of crap. The UI is horrible, and it doesn't appear that I can do precise sizing of the partitions. I was originally going to recreate partitions of the same size, and then use TSGUI to create rdf's, and then expand the rdf's over top of the duplicate-sized partitions.
* I'd simply copy the files, but there are errors on the disk which abort the copy. I don't remember if there is a flag to ignore it, and otherwise not sure which utility can copy and ignore them. I thought about using LHA (which I'm pretty sure can ignore errors), but there's gotta be other ways.
* I don't care about maintaining most of the partitions as partitions.... if they are simply directories now, that's fine by me.... except....
* I have at least two partitions that are NOT amiga dos formatted. These have to be copied sector by sector.
After creating a "merged" 4gb drive, I intend on swab'ing it, and then dd'ing it back to the card. This works exactly as it should, and I have no trouble with this....
This seems like a simple exercise.... If the file systems were easily supported by linux, if I could mount and unmount .rdf's, and so on, maybe I'd already be finished with the task......
Thanks for any advice
kamiga
