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- From: bytey@werple.net.au (Chris Hames)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: Amiga's hard disk to a PC?
- Date: 2 Feb 1996 11:08:21 +1100
- Organization: Werple Internet, Melbourne
- Message-ID: <4erkll$guo@werple.net.au>
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- jtsalo@walrus.megabaud.fi (Jarmo Salo) writes:
-
- >My A3000's power supply broke a few months ago. There were no spare parts
- >or new power supplies available, so I had to go and buy a PC.
- >I sold all A3000's remainders but a 245-megabyte SCSI hard disk, because
- >I had some important material on it, and there were no backup copies on
- >diskettes.
-
- >My question is: is there any way to read Amiga's hard disk attached to
- >PC's SCSI controller? Sure you need some kind of program to do this - or
- >is it physically possible to PC to read Amiga's Fast File System
- >formatted hard disk...?
-
- >Or must I buy an old A500 with SCSI controller to save my important ten
- >megabytes...
- >
-
- Should be no problem hardware wise. I believe someone wrote a read only
- Amiga filesystem for unix, you could probably read it that way
- (ie run linux).
-
-
- --
- Chris Hames bytey@werple.mira.net.au (OR bytey@melbourne.dialix.oz.au)
- MS Windows 3.1 pre-emptively multitasks...........on my Amiga!
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