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Getting data off my old RISC PC and into an emulator |
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marria01 (12:16 8/11/2013)
trevj (12:27 8/11/2013)
marria01 (16:35 8/11/2013)
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Andy Marriott |
Message #122765, posted by marria01 at 12:16, 8/11/2013 |
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Greetings!
A friend of mine has recently resurrected his old Amiga and copied the contents of his old hard disc into an emulator on his Mac. This has spurred me on to look at getting my old RISC PC going again so I can read all my old GCSE coursework from the mid-90's!
Until I have the space to fire the machine up proper, I thought the best route would be to clone the hard disc and bring it up in an emulator. So I took the disc out, fired it up with a USB->IDE adaptor and was able to mount the disc in Ubuntu using the ADFS kernel module and copy it to folder on the linux box. Obviously all the extended attributes are lost doing it this way and I've had limited success reading the files (especially all the impression documents) as the filetypes haven't been preserved.
While I had the disc spun up, I also dd'ed the whole disc into an image file. It seems this would be the best way to preserve all the required info, but I've run into a bit of brick wall getting an emulator to read the disc image. I've tried using RPCemu which apparently supports .adf and .hdf files but can't seem to get the image to mount. Any ideas folks? I'm more than happy to fork out cash to use a commercial solution like Virtual Acorn, but I need a guarantee that it's going to work.
I did get the USB->IDE adaptor to connect to one of my Raspberry Pi's running RISC OS, but the !LongFiles app that I'd used to name some of the files and folders won't run up as it's not 32-bit compatible.
I don't seem to be able to find categoric proof that you can actually do this. Can someone actually confirm that what I'm trying to do is achievable?
Cheers,
Andy M |
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Trevor Johnson |
Message #122766, posted by trevj at 12:27, 8/11/2013, in reply to message #122765 |
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I've tried using RPCemu which apparently supports .adf and .hdf files but can't seem to get the image to mount. Have you tried searching the RPCEmu Archives for some pointers? Good luck  |
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Andy Marriott |
Message #122769, posted by marria01 at 16:35, 8/11/2013, in reply to message #122766 |
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I've tried using RPCemu which apparently supports .adf and .hdf files but can't seem to get the image to mount. Have you tried searching the RPCEmu Archives for some pointers? Good luck
Well it appears my good friend Hugo has been before me.
[Rpcemu] Hard disk image question
To cut a long story short and assuming you have a linux box with RPCEmu on:
Connect the disc to the linux box. Verify the machine sees the disc and gives it a suitable name (ie. /dev/sdb).
Insert the kernel module to read ADFS formatted discs:
sudo /sbin/modprobe -v adfs
Make a temporary directory that will act as a mount point:
mkdir ~/tmp_adfs
Mount the disc to the mount point:
sudo mount -t adfs /dev/sdb ~/tmp_adfs -o uid=$USER
Check the contents of the folder represent the contents of the disc and the unmount it again:
sudo umount ~/tmp_adfs
Now, made an image of the disc like this:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=harddrive.adf bs=512
Now, grab the code from Hugo's post I've linked to. Stick it in a file called chk.c and type following into a terminal.
dd if=/dev/zero of=blanksector bs=512 count=1
cat blanksector harddrive.adf >hd4.hdf
gcc -o chk chk.c
./chk
You should now be presented with a working hard disc image that can be dropped in the same folder as the RPCEmu application. Once you run the emulator up (with a suitable ROM version to match the machine you took the drive from), the emulator should boot off the drive image and off you go!
[Edited by marria01 at 21:55, 9/11/2013] |
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