Re: Reading Amiga Floppy Disks

[Darren Reed <darrenr%reed.wattle.id.au@localhost>]

In some email I received from Ciarcinski, Adam, sie wrote:
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> > Can native Amiga format floppies be read using NetBSD/Amiga ?
> > 
> > If so, has anyone written a program to make ADF files from them?
> 
> 
> Darren,
> 
> As far as I know ADF file is just an image of a floppy.
> It's always 901120 bytes long (80 tracks * 2 sides * 11 sectors * 512 bytes)
> You can create then using dd, for example:
> 
>       dd if=/dev/fd0a of=image.adf
> 
> Note: it will only work with Amiga floppies!
> 
> You can 'compress' them later to obtain compressed-ADF format
> (as fas as I remember, called ADZ).

okay, that's good news.

The other question I'm curious about is what about things which used the
raw disk (had their own drivers) - i.e. had their own format?
Or just give up any thoughts of using those with WinUAE?

Darren