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[afd67]

Hi I have an old amiga 1200 that has a hard drive in it, I have been mucking about with amiga emulators and would like access to the data on the drive. I read that Linux can read Amiga drives and so installed Fedora on my iMac. It didn't work. I used a USB to 2.5" enclosure. The imac saw there was a disc attached but asked to format it. I got same result with windows.
Does anyone know of a way to access the data? Can an emulator read the drive via USB? Or is there an amiga driver for Mac or PC? Did I use the wrong version of Linux?
Alan

[tormedhammaren]

Mounting Amiga FFS under Linux needs a module called affs.

Read this: http://www.yueksel.org/artikel.cgi/1111186447

[pjhutch]

I know Winuae can read Amiga drives if attached via IDE.
Ideally, I would get a 2.5" to 3.5" converter cable and attach it that way to PC.

To be honest, the best way is to connect the Amiga with the HD to your PC via a serial lead and use Amiga Explorer (comes with Amiga Forever) to get files off it.

[neuroflip]

pjhutch wrote:
To be honest, the best way is to connect the Amiga with the HD to your PC via a serial lead and use Amiga Explorer (comes with Amiga Forever) to get files off it.

But Amiga Explorer is too slow!! try and decide :P
Serial option it's better with NComm and 8n1.device

[afd67]

tormedhammaren wrote:
Mount Amiga FFS under Linux needs a module called affs.

Read this: http://www.yueksel.org/artikel.cgi/1111186447

Sorry I am very new to Linux so the above link went a wee bit over my head! Is this module available to all versions of Linux or just some?

Thanks alan

[afd67]

Also I only have the 1200 left, mouse monitor and power supply are long gone.
If I use Amiga Explorer can I use it via "USB?

[neuroflip]

if i have understand you only have the a1200 :-( ... then connect the ide hd to a pc to extract the info via linux mounting affs.

[afd67]

problem with that is i have an iMac, which is why i wanted to use USB. The only PC i have is a tablet PC that belongs to my school. the amiga drive is too thick to fit it anyway.
Thanks will look out for an old PC from somewhere. Can anyone recommend a lesion of LINUX that has the Amiga driver or will they all have it?

Thanks

Alan

[tormedhammaren]

This module is part of the standard 2.6-three (kernel). Which means that this is the same in all Linux distributions. The question is if the kernel is compiled with affs as a module or if it isn't (it is certainly not compiled in as non-module, cause then it would have worked from the start).

Try this:
1. su - (and enter root password)
2. modprobe affs (if this fails then the amiga affs module is
not part of your kernel).
3. mkdir /mnt/amiga
4 mount -t affs /dev/hdax /mnt/amiga (replace x with the device number of the amiga h).

Does it work?

If the module isn't part of your kernel then you'll have to compile it in yourself.

Guide for compiling kernel on Fedora: http://cri.ch/linux/docs/sk0010.html

This is for Fedora Core 3 (old) but it should be the same. Just replace the kernel-archive with the newest.

[Argo]

I've found that installing the HD into a PC, in your case you would need an adapter, and mounting it under UAE along with the computers drives to be very easy.

[adonay]

Argo wrote:
I've found that installing the HD into a PC, in your case you would need an adapter, and mounting it under UAE along with the computers drives to be very easy.

Only correct way of doing it as no need too have the host os too see it. winuae "not sure about otther uae but think it should" sees the hd there and can be mounted there perfect for you emu hehe and easy way (not to say fast way too move files) so dont use too much time on slow serial sulotions from pre WW1 and such just use uae and mount hd there.

I use a usb adapter too my miggy drives and just plug in an out as i wish fast and efficient. Actually i never copy files on miggy for miggy as it is too slow i use the pc

[afd67]

Thanks for all these replies, have ordered a 2.5 to 3.5 IDE adapter on ebay. when it arrives will try it. Will let you all know how I get on.

Alan