Cant get my old Amiga 1200 Disks to read on Amiga 500

[amigagr]

if the disks that you format with a1200 are formated with the FastFileSystem (FFS) of amiga os 3.0 or 3.1 but your amiga 500 can only read disks formated with the OldFileSystem (OFS). you have 2 choises: 1)upgrade the a500 to 3.1 kickstart http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=25&products_id=157&osCsid=da48e2bad0562dbcf27d5d5614b948af
(gasp!) or 2) find a friend with an a1200 and convert them there.



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but how the ... can be done this trick with links?

[amigagr]

if the a1200 has a hard drive move the files of the floppys to the hard drive floppy by floppy,(keep somewhere the names of the disks to restor ok) format all the floppys with plain format (don't select FFS International mode and directory caching) and finaly move the files back to the new formated floppys... quite boring task.

[amigagr]

yeah, we moving faster than our shadow :-)

[amigagr]

@InTheSand: cool :-)


aminet seams not to working...  :-?

[amigagr]

InTheSand wrote:
P.S. This is my first post on A.org using a REAL Amiga! (A3000, 68060, OS3.9, Sana2 network card). All those smileys take FOREVER to load in AWeb!

good for you :-)  today arrive the pcmcia that i order from amikit and i hope that i'll serfing with my amiga too from tommorow :-)  and with the a3000 in a week, depents on the pci configuration of the prometheus that came too:-)

[amigagr]

zefiro wrote:
"In addition to optimizing a disk, ReOrg can also convert
the filesystem of a disk during the optimization, e.g. from OFS to DC-FFS"

i hope that it's not destroing data too...