Hello,
I used to have a towered Amiga, sadly that died some ago so I now have an A1200 with compact flash hd. However I still have the spinning rust drives from the tower. I have also found a drive that is probably Amiga based but may not be.
I would like to try and recover the data of these drives, but am running into some issues.
I'm using a Linux (mint 21.3) with an usb adaptor to pull the data off the drives. Linux has Affs baked into its kernel (the OS' guts) and you can use a command to grab the raw data of a hard drive into a file. Sometimes the image produced behave nicely and you get
sudo parted 3gb1.img
GNU Parted 3.4
Using 3gb1.img
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) p
Model: (file)
Disk 3gb1.img: 1622MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 1622MB 1622MB affs1
This can be mounted in Linux and read.
However often I am getting
NU Parted 3.4
Using AmigaDisk.img
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) p
Model: (file)
Disk AmigaDisk.img: 40.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: amiga
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1280kB 8591MB 8590MB DH40 boot
2 8591MB 17.2GB 8590MB DH41
3 17.2GB 25.8GB 8590MB DH42
4 25.8GB 34.4GB 8590MB DH43
5 34.4GB 40.0GB 5638MB DH43
Which cannot as Linux cannot recognise the file system.
I have been trying, without any success, to get the above AmigaDisk.img recognised by Amiberry - a fork of UAE - as I am guessing that the fs is either Smart File System. Professional File System or maybe fro OS 3.9 - which might not be compatible with the kernel. It could also be Affs, but patched using ide-fix97
If I just use the image as a hard drive on Amiberry I get 4 drives displayed, but they are just garbage.
So any suggestions as to how I might be able to recover this drive?
Thanks in advance.
