Transferring files from Amiga to Mac osX

[starf81]

Hi!!!

I'm backuping all my Amiga floppies making ADF images on the A1200's HD. It's very long and quite boring operation but I want preservate all my old games and programs...

Now the question: when I'll finish, I'd like to backup all ADFs on CDs and/or DVDs.
In your opinion, what is the best way to transfer all these files to my Mac?
I have an idea but I'd like to receive some hints and feedbacks. On eBay I can buy a IDE adapter and set it as slave. Can I read a CF card (1GB) with Amiga? Obviously I have to leave the FAT32 FS on CF otherwise after I can't read it with the Mac.
Any suggestion? Do you know smooth ways??

Thanks in advance!   :-)  :-)  :-)
Alex

[paulvm]

it is my understanding that all media cards use fat 12 that should be useable on a mac or pc with a card reader.

[ncafferkey]

With cfd from Aminet, you can use a CF card in the A1200 with a CF to PCMCIA adapter. If you search this site, you'll find more details about it. You could also use FTP.

[Doobrey]

ncafferkey wrote:
 You could also use FTP.

Or Samba, it works fine transferring files between my A4000 and iBook (Not to mention it was a doddle to setup compared to Windows->Amiga)

[starf81]

Thanks for your help!!!

Just as I'll finish to make ADF images, I'll try both FTP and Samba way  :-)

Alex

[icbrkr]

Don't forget that OS X has a built in FTP server so it's pretty simple to send to and from the miggy that way - it's a bit easier than trying to get SAMBA working (I could just be stupid but I couldn't get it to work)

[patrik]

Use smbfs instead of samba, then you will actually be able to benefit from samba shares on your Amiga - ie you can mount your PCs shares on your Amiga as regular volumes (an icon will show on WB).

Samba is for the other way - you share your Amigas drives to other computers which can mount them up.

Smbfs is much simpler than samba - it is just a single command. Search for it on amiga.org and you will surely find some examples of how to use it. As an added bonus smbfs is very fast, compared to samba which is dog slow.


/Patrik