Re: GS hard drive to image file?

["Brian Peek" <peekb@nycap.rr.com>]

Thanks so much for the information!  My drive is a standard, external SCSI
Apple 40MB drive, but I'm unsure of the model.  I do have a SCSI interface
setup on my PC and will try that route first.

Thanks again!

Brian

"Andy McFadden" <fadden@fadden.com> wrote in message
news:ktGzd.14578$_3.164698@typhoon.sonic.net...
>
> If it's an external hard drive, and you have a PC with a compatible
> interface (e.g. SCSI card), you can use CiderPress to create a block image
> of the entire drive.  This is the fastest and least-hassle approach, but
> it may not work for all drives (e.g. InnerDrive or Vulcan), and if your
> drive is SCSI you will need a SCSI interface on the PC.
>
> Another approach is to create an image of each partition using a disk
> image
> program (DiskMaker) from SheppyWare (www.sheppyware.net).  If you have a
> 2GB drive with a bunch of ProDOS partitions and one large HFS partition,
> this works out pretty well, because you can copy images of the ProDOS
> areas onto HFS.  The partitions can be used directly by KEGS.
>
> If neither of these is sounding appealing, you can try to buy a CFFA
> card for your Apple II, and volume-copy the partitions onto the CF card.
> These can then be extracted with CiderPress.
>
> Yet another approach is to use GS/ShrinkIt to create a file archive with
> the contents of each partition, assuming you have sufficient free space.
> GSHK will compress things down, so you can fit quite a bit more.  The
> archives can be transferred through a serial connection, and you can use
> CiderPress to transform them from a file archive into a disk image.
>
>
> If it sounds like I'm pushing CiderPress a lot, you have to understand
> that CiderPress exists to solve these sorts of problems.  The failure
> of an 80MB hard drive (death by stiction) is what inspired me to write
> NuLib2 and CiderPress.  Pulling stuff out of 32MB file archives is not
> a job I would want to handle with the original NuLib.
>
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