No Sectors left of 120GB Drive

[Gene Heskett]

Wouter Lamée wrote:
> Gene Heskett <gene.heskett <at> verizon.net> writes:
>> On Thursday 05 October 2006 21:18, jdow wrote:
>>> From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox <at> yahoo.com.au>
>>>> Speaking of Amigas, have you got Fedora to read any Amiga FFS hard
>>>> drives, or even Zip discs?  I've got a hankering to transfer some old
>>>> data onto Fedora, and I'd rather not have to try getting Samba working
>>>> with Miami over a serial port link.  Ugh, torture!
>>> Of course, there is even an Amiga SFS driver available if you look
>>> for it. It reads both my 18 G main hard disk with "odd" formatting
>>> and the 2k per block Fujitsu Magneto Optical disks I have. (My odd
>>> formatting embeds the "RDBs" (Amiga's partition blocks) within the
>>> first partition within reserved space just to prove it could be
>>> done and make sure regarding how to make it safe.
>> I also played with that reserved area somewhat back in the mists of time.
>>
>> I have, in the unbootable amiga yet, an amiga drive that was partitioned 
>> all for an earlier version of SFS (Before it went underground and 
>> eventually turned up commercially), and which I believe contains all of 
>> the ezcron and ezhome stuff Jim and I ever wrote.  Where might I find this 
>> bit of magic for linux?
>>
>> The idea is that if we ever could recover the real srcs, we'ed publish it 
>> under the GPL since any chance of deriving any income is long gone.
> 
> Sorry to butt in here, I dropped by looking for Amiga FFS (or Amiga SFS, which
> will also do) partition mounting in FC5.
> 
> FWIW, I've got FC5 installed on my Peg2, and there is an ext2/ext3 FileSystem
> for AmigaOS/ MorphOS someone wrote. Doesn't do everything yet, but it gives
> warnings when it can not do something. I've got it working one way now: On
> MorphOS I can read/write on my FC5 ext3 partition.
> 
> If I can get FC5 to read my FFS partition, that would be fine. Maybe I'll try
> the SFS thing first. Anybody know where to find these?
> 
> wlamee
> 
> 
Unforch, I've not followed up on this, its been quite a ways down the 
priority list since I've been too busy with honeydoos and long trips to 
work on small market tv stations.  Sorry.

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Cheers, Gene