wobbly wrote:
Sorry to bring up an old thread.
Am I risking anything [beyond normal reason - afterall, my Amiga hard drives must be >10 years old..] - namely my data on my hard drives - if i connect them up to a pc, one that i intend to run Amithlon on?
I guess i'm asking if is it safe to plug in my Amiga hard drives!
Absolutely not, if you also use Windows. Apparently, Windows writes to the first block of any disk drive it doesn't understand. This damages the RDB of an Amiga formatted drive so it can't be read by a real Amiga anymore. The problem is discussed here,
http://www-d0.fnal.gov/D0Code/source/l3xsbc_distrib/linux/Documentation/filesystems/affs.txt#L154and here:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=9933
