[CLUE-Tech] CLUE-TECH: Linux and Amiga File system

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Richard Knechtel wrote:

> Has anyone successfully gotten the AFS Amiga File system up and running 
> under Linux?  I have been banging at this for over a year and a half and 
> have about given up.  I want to use UAE and mount my original Amiga Hard 
> Drives to Linux so I can use them under UAE (cine my two Amiga's are about 
> dead and spare parts are not available anymore.. (Anyone have good floppy 
> dirves, especially the High density ones????) Or know of someone that can 
> repair the things?  Thought not... :^)
> 
> I am using SuSE 7.0.

I've never tried mounting Amiga disks, so I can't help you with specific
instructions...how are you connecting them to your PC? They're not IDE
drives, are they? (Forgive me if that's an *ahem* clueless question, I've
not tinkered with Amigas very much. We had one that I used occasionally
when I worked at KTVO, but it was just used for "wipes" during the news
broadcast and video editing - I never got to take it apart...) 

You might have luck with the Debian m68k port:
http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/

It's supposed to work for Amigas, maybe you could find some spare parts
on Ebay? There's a used computer shop on Colorado blvd. that I've seen
Amigas for sale at... 

If you get a working floppy try Debian or NetBSD, I'm guessing one of them
would let you boot up and transfer files somehow. 

Good luck!

Zonker
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