On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 00:54, Ernest Unrau <ejunrau@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jan 7 2010 Andrew 'Truck' Holland wrote: > > Another thing I really wish it were possible to do is to directly access > Amiga formatted drives from EUAE. Such as, it would sure be nice > to access my external IDE/USB drive, which is formatted/partitioned > SFS. That is, it's an external IDE drive housed in a case with its own > power supply and connects to the classic amiga via usb (I have a subway > card in my A3000 desktop, but that's quite slow - a data rate of only > about 350 to 400 kilobytes per second). > > When I had this problem (amongst others, my A1200 keyboard failing, for instance), I ran an FTP server on my target box and used 'FTP Mount' on the Amiga to use it as if it were a local drive and LHA'd my partitions directly to the network (preserving a lot of information). I did try other methods like SAMBA, etc., but this worked and wasn't too hard. Not sure how easy it is to set up FTP on a Mac, but most of their 'sharing' services have a fairly trivial 'turn it on' function if FTP is an option. Aminet is your friend. (I'd really like to mount the remote [Amiga] partitions locally and dd them, of course). jaminJay