Reading Amiga Hardrive on PC

Got an AMiga 3.5 inch drive formatted and installed in my tower a1200.

As i want access to the drive to back stuff up onto cd on the pc (much easier)

What would i need to read the drive on a pc.

Ta guys

[johnbarry]

Many moons ago I purchased a kit to do just that, from

http://www.weirdscience.co.uk/

for many years though the website has been as it is now.

I can't remeber what it was called, so let's call it Amiga-PC
It consisted of a parralell-parralell cable a floppy disk (programme) for the Amiga and a CD (programme) for the PC.
You installed the programme to both the Amiga and PC opening both (on each rig) would open up the hard drives and (using the PC) you could drag from Amiga drive into the PC drive.
It sounds good so far, however I never got it to work it kept saying packets sent too slow?
Had I have succeeded then there may be a problem to open the files using PC programmes. At the time I was trying to transfer IFF pics as Paint Shop Pro is supposed to open them.
Also if it had worked and say I burnt them to CD (backup) then you would possibly haver to transfar back when needing to read them?

I am at the moment (with advise of EAB members) trying to transfer Wordworth files to read on my PC via WinUAE.
Also there seem to be some suggestions on the web relating to file transfer (not tried) on the web also using WinUAE.

So far both the transfer from floppy or HDD draw a blank using ADF, yet I have no trouble using ADF downloads from the web?

Search Amiga data files to PC

That's my experience, someone else may know different?

This is my first (suggestion) reply in the forum and I hope it's not my last.

[keropi]

very easy....

put the amiga HD on the pc, and DON'T MESS with the partitions. in fact don't touch it.
run winuae, and on the hard drive tab, u will see a button to add the hard-drive... then run your emulated OS and do what u want from within winuae

thankyou

will give it a go

[ElectroBlaster]

I had an idea but never got around to doing it.

Buy two of these: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BLACK-Removabl...QQcmdZViewItem

Then install one into your amiga tower and the other in your pc, fit the amiga drive into one caddie so you can just swap the drive around at will without having to keep opening the pc or the amiga tower

[spiff]

Just wondering, isn't a pc supposed to be able to read amiga file systems directly if you compile it into the the kernel and then mount the HD??

I've never tried it so maybe I'm missing something..

[thomas]

I never heard of that you can compile your own Windows kernel.

With Linux you need to compile a kernel with Amiga file system support and Amiga partition table support, then you can mount Amiga partitions directly. However, there are third-party file systems for the Amiga (e.g. PFS3 or SFS) which are not supported by Linux.

[ppill]

Originally Posted by thomas

[...] However, there are third-party file systems for the Amiga (e.g. PFS3 or SFS) which are not supported by Linux.

SFS is supported. link

Yup worked fine in winuae

Got ols amiga os running off the amiga hardrive.

Had to turn off bits of teh patchs on there

but works fine