Windows filenames on CD

ptrchiappe · 04 February 2002, 16:29

I'm not sure if this is the right place but...

I ask to all the experts on this board which is the best method to burn the data CDs under Windows so that on the Amiga i can read the correct filenames, and not those horrible 8.3 DOS format names.

I use the a1200_atapi.device and AmiFileSystem to read CDs, and everything works very well, but with all the CDs i tried burning in this period it always reads them like MS-DOS.

Any solution is welcome (another Amiga CD filesystem, some Win program which is able to burn differently from standard Win filenames

) as long as it helps me on this subject.

TIA

RetroMan · 04 February 2002, 20:24

Just burn it with ISO-2 format and JOLIET , that should do the trick, well at least it does for me

ptrchiappe · 05 February 2002, 08:11

And what device and filesystem you use on the amiga side to read the names correctly?

I already tried the CDFS that comes with the idefix package and AsimCDFS, and always got the DOS names

.

RetroMan · 05 February 2002, 14:56

CacheCDFS from OS 3.9 on my A1200 and the cdfs that comes with a PCMCIA CDRom on my A600 (Tandem PCMCIA Controller) with WB 2.1 ... works fine ...

ptrchiappe · 06 February 2002, 09:04

Thanks for the tip, it worked.

I found a program that let me burn in ISO-2 with long names, and the Amiga read perfectly the long filenames

.

Echo · 21 February 2003, 09:24

Thanks Retroman, I was about to ask the same thing, but thought I'd try a search first!

Now I can get all these nice hd installers across in one go, zip disks and 8.3 filenames were starting to get on my nerves

mr_0rga5m · 21 February 2003, 12:13

Quote:

Originally posted by ptrchiappe
Thanks for the tip, it worked.

I found a program that let me burn in ISO-2 with long names, and the Amiga read perfectly the long filenames .

Longer than 64 chars?? .. Tell me tell me

Echo · 21 February 2003, 12:20

Quote:

Originally posted by mr_0rga5m
Longer than 64 chars?? .. Tell me tell me

Workbench wouldn't support more than 32 anyway.

I think the only way you could avoid the 64 character limit on CDs is to use UDF as opposed to ISO level 1/2. Nero can burn as UDF. I used it not so long back to work around another ISO limitation, single files larger than 2gb.

Severin · 21 February 2003, 14:45

Quote:

Workbench wouldn't support more than 32 anyway.

Erm, well upto 3.1, 3.5+ supports upto 103 characters, it's fastfilesystem that doesn't (or didn't), I have been using smartfilesystem for a couple of years with nice long filnames (it's free, faster than ffs and a lot more stable - look on the OS3.9 cd or aminet) iirc pfs also allows long names.

Echo · 21 February 2003, 14:57

Oh yeah, you did tell me about that mate - I still haven't got around to trying it, lol.

I really should make it a priority, FFS has fallen over 3 times in the last 2 months since getting back into Amiga bigtime. Unrecoverable checksum error, reformat required.

FAT32/NTFS are angels compared to FFS

Amiga1992 · 21 February 2003, 18:18

Yup, I've got to make the move to FFS soon. During the year I had like 4 irrecoverable checksum errors.

I just didn't find time to set it up! Probably these weeks, before I start my classes

Echo · 21 February 2003, 19:21

Surely you mean from Akira

My main concern (which I probably already asked you over the phone Severin!), is booting with SFS.

Is it going to work as per normal, or does it require a bootdisk to activate? I know Amiga hardware is generally very intelligent, but I'm curious as to how it can recognise a foreign filesystem with just the kickstart rom.

Amiga1992 · 21 February 2003, 19:46

Yes, my bad ;D

The machine boots without problems like if it was a normal HD. No need for bootdisks or anything, is not like if you have to mount the drive after you boot, this filesystem gets imprinted in the HD, somewhere, somehow (i'm not much of spannerhead when it comes down to these Amiga techy bits

.

21 February 2003, 20:05

Quote:

Workbench wouldn't support more than 32 anyway.

source

Maximum filename lengths for the popular filesystems are as follows:

AmigaDOS (dos.library): 102, plus 5 reserved for ".info" files
Workbench/Fast File System (FFS): 25, plus 5 reserved for ".info" files
Smart File System (SFS): 95, plus 5 reserved for ".info" files
Professional File System (PFS): 102, plus 5 reserved for ".info" files (PFS has a minimum of 31 characters)
Ami-File Safe (AFS): diskname length - 32, filename length - 96, comment length - 80

Twistin'Ghost · 22 February 2003, 01:32

Interesting stuff here. Great link, Burseg.

Just curious, could a WinUAE HDF file be created using these alternate file systems?

22 February 2003, 01:40

I'm doing all sorts of crazy things nowadays. If it's possible, I'll try to set the filesystem of a real amiga HD to SFS under WinUAE. I've no experience on connecting real amiga HDs to PC/WinUAE and using custom filesystems doesn't sound possible to me otherwise (With _normal_ UAE harddisks). Doesn't uae uses it's own system: the uae.filesystem?

Toni Wilen · 22 February 2003, 09:54

Quote:

could a WinUAE HDF file be created using these alternate file systems

Yes and no. "Regular" HDF won't automount/boot, only full HD images work (partitioned with HDToolbox etc..)

It is possible to boot/automount custom formatted HDFs but it will need extra code that checks the partition type and loads correct filesystem driver from Windows drive (I'd call it "RDB filesystem faking").

FastFileSystem is already supported when booting HDFs under KS1.3 so expanding the code for other custom filesystems won't be too hard.

Twistin'Ghost · 22 February 2003, 12:22

This would be cool. I find myself having to look at ADF's from AmigaDOS from time to time and they almost always have TOSEC filenames too long for AmigaDOS to read, so I end up having to eject, rename, insert just so I can get to the file (which doesn't exist to FFS).

Toni Wilen · 22 February 2003, 13:34

Quote:

expanding the code for other custom filesystems won't be too hard.

Done...

Filesystem driver must be copied to WinUAE's rom-directory and named xxxxxxxx.fs where x = filesystem's dostype in hexadecimal. (for example, SmartFileSystem's dostype is 0x53465300 -> file must be named 53465300.fs)

Of course filesystem loading can be improved in future...

Unfortunately it is not possible (?) to autodetect supported filesystems by loading and analyzing the filesystem driver.

Toni Wilen · 26 February 2003, 21:06

Ignore my previous post..

Last minute change (R5 will be out very soon): added filesystem-path to HDF options-tab, simply point it to Amiga filesystem driver (for example path/SmartFileSystem). Much easier than playing with hexadecimal dostypes, I think

04 February 2002, 16:29	#1
ptrchiappe Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Cagliari / Italy Age: 61 Posts: 186	Windows filenames on CD I'm not sure if this is the right place but... I ask to all the experts on this board which is the best method to burn the data CDs under Windows so that on the Amiga i can read the correct filenames, and not those horrible 8.3 DOS format names. I use the a1200_atapi.device and AmiFileSystem to read CDs, and everything works very well, but with all the CDs i tried burning in this period it always reads them like MS-DOS. Any solution is welcome (another Amiga CD filesystem, some Win program which is able to burn differently from standard Win filenames ) as long as it helps me on this subject. TIA

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04 February 2002, 20:24	#2
RetroMan Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Germany Age: 51 Posts: 3,704	Just burn it with ISO-2 format and JOLIET , that should do the trick, well at least it does for me

05 February 2002, 08:11	#3
ptrchiappe Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Cagliari / Italy Age: 61 Posts: 186	And what device and filesystem you use on the amiga side to read the names correctly? I already tried the CDFS that comes with the idefix package and AsimCDFS, and always got the DOS names .

05 February 2002, 14:56	#4
RetroMan Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Germany Age: 51 Posts: 3,704	CacheCDFS from OS 3.9 on my A1200 and the cdfs that comes with a PCMCIA CDRom on my A600 (Tandem PCMCIA Controller) with WB 2.1 ... works fine ...

06 February 2002, 09:04	#5
ptrchiappe Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Cagliari / Italy Age: 61 Posts: 186	Thanks for the tip, it worked. I found a program that let me burn in ISO-2 with long names, and the Amiga read perfectly the long filenames .

21 February 2003, 09:24	#6
Echo Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: South-West Wales Posts: 382	Thanks Retroman, I was about to ask the same thing, but thought I'd try a search first! Now I can get all these nice hd installers across in one go, zip disks and 8.3 filenames were starting to get on my nerves

21 February 2003, 14:57	#10
Echo Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: South-West Wales Posts: 382	Oh yeah, you did tell me about that mate - I still haven't got around to trying it, lol. I really should make it a priority, FFS has fallen over 3 times in the last 2 months since getting back into Amiga bigtime. Unrecoverable checksum error, reformat required. FAT32/NTFS are angels compared to FFS

21 February 2003, 18:18	#11
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,646	Yup, I've got to make the move to FFS soon. During the year I had like 4 irrecoverable checksum errors. I just didn't find time to set it up! Probably these weeks, before I start my classes

21 February 2003, 19:21	#12
Echo Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: South-West Wales Posts: 382	Surely you mean from Akira My main concern (which I probably already asked you over the phone Severin!), is booting with SFS. Is it going to work as per normal, or does it require a bootdisk to activate? I know Amiga hardware is generally very intelligent, but I'm curious as to how it can recognise a foreign filesystem with just the kickstart rom.

21 February 2003, 19:46	#13
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,646	Yes, my bad ;D The machine boots without problems like if it was a normal HD. No need for bootdisks or anything, is not like if you have to mount the drive after you boot, this filesystem gets imprinted in the HD, somewhere, somehow (i'm not much of spannerhead when it comes down to these Amiga techy bits .

22 February 2003, 01:32	#15
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	Interesting stuff here. Great link, Burseg. Just curious, could a WinUAE HDF file be created using these alternate file systems?

22 February 2003, 01:40	#16
oldpx Posts: n/a	I'm doing all sorts of crazy things nowadays. If it's possible, I'll try to set the filesystem of a real amiga HD to SFS under WinUAE. I've no experience on connecting real amiga HDs to PC/WinUAE and using custom filesystems doesn't sound possible to me otherwise (With _normal_ UAE harddisks). Doesn't uae uses it's own system: the uae.filesystem?

22 February 2003, 12:22	#18
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	This would be cool. I find myself having to look at ADF's from AmigaDOS from time to time and they almost always have TOSEC filenames too long for AmigaDOS to read, so I end up having to eject, rename, insert just so I can get to the file (which doesn't exist to FFS).

26 February 2003, 21:06	#20
Toni Wilen WinUAE developer Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hämeenlinna/Finland Age: 49 Posts: 26,534	Ignore my previous post.. Last minute change (R5 will be out very soon): added filesystem-path to HDF options-tab, simply point it to Amiga filesystem driver (for example path/SmartFileSystem). Much easier than playing with hexadecimal dostypes, I think

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