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Re: Amiga HD drive reliability + Adf's to HD?
« on: November 08, 2008, 07:14:04 PM »
HD drive is not very reliable, a replacement will set you back 100 USD if you want an original and about 30 for a new one which is just a hacked pc drive, which will probably not let you boot non-dos games from floppy that use a particular signal not present - example of this would be Cannon Fodder.

Wear and tear on the HD floppy is not very recommended. I would be using an external drive if I were you.

And yes, there is such a program. It is called ADF2DISK and is available on aminet.
Here's how you use it: adf2disk filename.adf
This will write the adf to df0, which does not need to be formatted - however it is a good idea to format the disks in x-copy so you can check disk integrity, because after 20-30 years these disks start deteriorating.

If on the other hand you want to write to DF1: then it is a little more complicated.
From what I remember you have to use the following command:
adf2disk filename.adf trackdisk.device 1
That will then write the adf using the trackdisk.device (floppy) and unit 1, which will be the external. Unit 0 would be the internal. And so on.

Hope this helps.

Edit: I now notice I was answering the wrong question, which you did not ask  :-D
Anyhow, what you can do is use the adf to dms converter and then convert the adf files to dms, and then extract to harddrive like you wanted.