reading an amiga 1200 hard drive without an amiga?

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Hi I have an old amiga 1200 that has a hard drive in it, I have been mucking about with amiga emulators and would like access to the data on the drive. I read that Linux can read Amiga drives and so installed Fedora on my iMac. It didn't work. I used a USB to 2.5" enclosure. The imac saw there was a disc attached but asked to format it. I got same result with windows.
Does anyone know of a way to access the data? Can an emulator read the drive via USB? Or is there an amiga driver for Mac or PC? Did I use the wrong version of Linux?
Alan

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tormedhammaren wrote:
Mount Amiga FFS under Linux needs a module called affs.

Read this: http://www.yueksel.org/artikel.cgi/1111186447

Sorry I am very new to Linux so the above link went a wee bit over my head! Is this module available to all versions of Linux or just some?

Thanks alan

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Also I only have the 1200 left, mouse monitor and power supply are long gone.
If I use Amiga Explorer can I use it via "USB?

[afd67]

problem with that is i have an iMac, which is why i wanted to use USB. The only PC i have is a tablet PC that belongs to my school. the amiga drive is too thick to fit it anyway.
Thanks will look out for an old PC from somewhere. Can anyone recommend a lesion of LINUX that has the Amiga driver or will they all have it?

Thanks

Alan

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Thanks for all these replies, have ordered a 2.5 to 3.5 IDE adapter on ebay. when it arrives will try it. Will let you all know how I get on.

Alan