On 25 Mar 2011, at 16:37, Tom Walker wrote: >> This is to connect the IDE disc to one of my linux boxes using the USB- >> IDE adaptor and then either get the content as an ADFS format image >> file, then use the file from each disc in turn as 'hd5.hdf' with >> RPCEmu to access the contents. > > You could do this. But why bother with the USB-IDE adapter? Just plug the > drive directly into the motherboard. I think under Linux you want the 'dd' > command to image the discs? Not sure.
Yes, this is exactly what I did to image my A5000's hard drive (connected to the motherboard IDE interface of Linux box and used dd to create an image of it). Be careful with dd though, if you get the arguments wrong you could end up writing to your hard drive instead of reading from it. Francis _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
