14 April 2021, 17:58 | #1 |
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Restoring CF card on MacOS
Hello folks,
I have recently backup my Amiga's internal CF card to my Mac. I used the following code in Terminal to do so: Code:
sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk3 of=originalbackup.hdf bs=8m Essentially I want to take the 'originalbackup.hdf' file and just put it on a new clean CF card so I can use it in the Amiga. Sadly when I insert the CF card into my Mac, it's recognised by Finder as a FAT formatted device, so when I try the following code to 'copy' the hdf file to it... Code:
sudo dd if=originalbackup.hdf of=/dev/rdisk3 bs=8m So how do I do this? Any help will be appreciated. Many thanks Keith |
14 April 2021, 18:41 | #2 |
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... Update...
I found out how to do this... you need to unmount the disk you are copying to, like this: Code:
diskutil unmountDisk disk3 Problem solved, original CF card cloned and all working fine. |
15 April 2021, 18:46 | #3 |
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While I haven't tried writing an Amiga HDF back to a real card on a Mac, I suspect it should work pretty well with Balena Etcher - the Mac equivalent to win32diskimager. I have used it in the past for bootable USB drives and microSD (Raspberry Pi) cards.
While dd is awesome, sometimes you just want to use a graphical GUI Give it a whirl next time and please report back if it works: https://www.balena.io/etcher |
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