Re: Disk Imaging for poserity sake
  By: Benny Pedersen to Keith Matthews on Fri Dec 24 2010 05:34:10

Hi Benny,

Thanks for all the good hints 8-)

I'll try them out.

I completed all my C128/CPM/C64 disk Imaging about 2 years ago before I
started on the Amiga stuff.

I went through 2 A1200 floppy drives imaging the amiga stuff 8-)

I was really concerned tha TOSEC etc were not capturing all the NON-GAME
stuff. I mean GAMES were not all th AMIGA was great at. I was much more of
an Application FAN myself.
Hence I wanted to get all my Music, Utilities and Video Apps imaged before
the floppies dies.

I must admit I was impressed with the good old floppies.
I recon I had about a 3% total failure rate and maybe 10% with random bad sectors. 
By far most of them were in very good condition,

Once Natami is out I will most likely be looking to pull all these images
out of the archive and play with them again 8-)

For now I just store them on my BBS 8-)

Thanks again for the reply.



 > Hello Keith!
 > 
 > 22 Dec 2010 16:12, Keith Matthews wrote to All:
 > 
 >  KM> I have almost finished imaging all my Amiga SW. It has only taken 2
 >  KM> years of and on 8-)
 > 
 > super work, thanks if more did that we would have a more complete disk library
 > of old floppy disks that cant be replaced :/
 > 
 > sony is a bastard :)
 > 
 >  KM> I am down to my last few disks which was from my AMAX and Transformer
 >  KM> emulators.
 > 
 > CrossDos, CrossMac, CrossPC, and zip content from them as plain zip files name
 > the zip file as the floppy name if importange what name it have to get the
 > program to install after restore it to floppy
 > 
 >  KM> I was just wondering if anyone has some idea's on how I can image the
 >  KM> actual MAC and IBM DOS disk's from within AmigaOS?
 > 
 > in linux i can mount adf files natively
 > 
 > mount -o bind -t affs /mnt/floppy adf-imagefile
 > 
 > ls -l /mnt/floppy/
 > 
 > with dos one just need to install mtools, then mdir a: works as it was a old pc
 > with msdos 1.0 :)
 > 
 > i can do this in my commodore 128d with 2 1571 floppy disks, in cpm mode i have
 > a msdos emulator to transfer files from msdos disk to cpm disks
 > 
 > pip ....
 > 
 >  KM> I tried just making ADF's of them, and as expected it was a big FAIL.
 >  KM> 8-)
 > 
 > adf is not a fail at all, dms is :=)
 > 
 > aminet download transadf
 > 
 >  KM> I had thought that maybe I could make ADF's if I used crossdos for IBM
 >  KM> disks and a MAC equivalent of crossdos (if it exists) for the
MAC disks,
 >  KM> to enable new compatible devices?
 > 
 > CrossMAC, CrossDOS, CrossPC remember the problem here, i have a cbm 2088 oh all
 > that pc in the time, had fun mount the live C: drive via CrossDOS to amiga and
 > transfer files live from pc and reverse without rember any thing about problems
 > in doing so, gifview gif files from adpro, wow :)
 > 
 >  KM> Thanks for any ideas 8-)
 > 
 > keep up the good work btw, i have around 75000 adf files, hope i can make it
 > more complete then TOSSEC :)
 > 
 > 
 >  Regards Benny
 > 
 > ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)
 > 
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Regards........Geo
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