Accessing FFS disks from Windows/Mac

[uncharted]

Hello Good Amiga Folks!

I'm having a big big spring clean, which means that the monstrosity (but much loved) A1200T will have to go.  However, the ancient 4GB HDD in there has a lot of precious stuff that I want to keep.

My question is, if I put the drive into an external USB caddy, will I be able to get to the partitions?  My only machine is a MacBook with both OS X 10.6 and Win 7,  So any solutions that Linux or AROS won't be much help to me I'm afraid.

I could have sworn there was something about WinUAE being able to read Amiga drives years back, but I've come up empty with a couple of searches and I don't really have time to devote to scouring the web for the info.  I can't stress enough just how much junk there is to go through

Thanks,

Andy

[Lizard]

From the Readme.txt in the WinUAE archive:

Amiga formatted harddisk support
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Requires Windows 2000 or newer with administrator privileges.

All Amiga formatted or empty drives (=zeroed partition table) are autodetected.
WinUAE does not care about interface type, drive can IDE or SCSI or even
memory card if Windows detects the drive in device manager.

Use uaehf.device to access the drive in HDToolBox.
Note that some versions of HDToolBox don't see drives with unit number > 6.
Remove some mounted harddrives (directory or hardware) to fix the problem.

WARNING: you can force all drives to be detected if you run WinUAE with
-disableharddrivesafetycheck command line parameter but be very careful.
Don't try to select and partition/format your Windows drive(s)!

NOTE: uaescsi.device or ASPI don't have anything to do with harddisk support.

So it should work

[uncharted]

From the Readme.txt in the WinUAE archive:



So it should work

Thanks! Just what I needed.

[wawrzon]

Thanks! Just what I needed.

It definitely works under Winuae