Short: Yet Another Disk Imager (v1.1) Author: adlroc@usa.net (Andre R. de la Rocha) Uploader: adlroc@usa.net (Andre R. de la Rocha) Type: disk/misc Requires: OS1.3+ YADI ia a small cli-only program to transfer disk images to and from Amiga devices. Why another disk imager ? Because the others suck. Most of them can only handle 880kb disk images and only support standard low density Amiga drives handled by trackdisk device. And even the ones that support other devices force you to supply the exec device name and unit, (i.e. trackdisk.device unit 0, instead of df0: ). YADI is useful to store NDOS disks as files, make backups of devices, transfer Amiga disks to Amiga emulators, transfer Amiga disk images used in the emulators back to Amiga disks, etc. YADI features: A single program handles creation of disk images and also writes them to devices. Supports any Amiga device that supports trackdisk commands, of any size, using any filesystem. This includes standard DF0: to DF4: (low or high density), Cross-DOS devices like PC0:, Cross-Mac devices, diskspare devices, RAD: , hard disk partitions, ZIPs, etc. You supply the dos device name, i.e., DF1:, not trackdisk.device unit 1; RAD:, not ramdrive.device. It is safe. It won't let you write a disk image over a device of a different size. So you can't write by accident a 880kb disk image over your hard disk partition. Works in any Amiga with kickstart 1.3 (and maybe even 1.2) or newer. But uses 2.0+ functions if available. Is public domain. Usage: yadi Commands : r : Read (create) a disk image file _from_ a device. w : Write a disk image file _to_ a device. The device doesn't need to be formated. It also verifies if the the data was written correctly. Examples: yadi r tst.dsk df0: Will read the contents of the disk in drive DF0: and save it as a disk image file in the current directory with the name tst.dsk . yadi w ram:AmigaDemo.ADF rad: Will write the disk image ram:AmigaDemo.ADF to RAD: yadi r dh1:sys.backup dh0: Will save a image of your entire DH0: partition as sys.backup in the root directory of your DH1: partition. History: Version 1.0 : First release. Version 1.1 : Fixed a bug present in the previous version. When trying to read a disk image from a disk with a faulty or strange track, like the ones used with most copy-protected games, it used to skip the error, but the resulting file was smaller than it should be, making it useless to make disk images for game installers and other aplications. Fixed. ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 20948 12798 38.9% 07-Sep-98 02:44:00 yadi 2673 1294 51.5% 07-Sep-98 02:04:06 yadi.readme -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 23621 14092 40.3% 07-Sep-98 22:10:58 2 files