Tools to make ADF files ?

Are there any tools to create ADF files from directories which will work on AmigaOS version 4 ?

@TSK

From "directories"??? On my OS3.9 machines I sometimes did ADF files from RAD: but never from dirs. Making a RAD: should work on OS4 as well. In my OS3 enviroment I use TransADF - didn't tested it on OS4.

Is diskimage device able to actually *make* ADFs?

@cha05e90

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No AFAIK.

@cha05e90

(Edit:)
TransADF doesn't work actually. Diskimage can't read the resulting adf file (IDF0: unfinished). I need long file name support.

ADF files are just raw data. You should be able to mount an empty image (880K of zeroes will do) with diskimage.device, and format it.

I don't see why it shouldn't work....

Spirantho is right. Creating an empty ADF is very easy. I suggest using mkfile for this as it doesn't initialise the file to all zeros so it's usually very fast.

To create a standard ADF disk image you would just type in a shell:
mkfile empty.adf 880k
Then simply mount the file in diskimage.device and format.

@TSK

How about catfloppy? I've also used tsgui in the past with great success, but haven't tried it recently as a label came off a disk in the drive and is giving me errors when I try to use it now.

Hi @cha05e90 and TSK,
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Making a RAD: should work on OS4 as well.

Yes, it does! I tried it last night. From DosDrivers, I got RAM_0 from the RAD driver. The defaults are a 880KB floppy. I wrote some files on it. The trick is using 'RAWDisk' in Sys:Utilities.
I had it write the binary file to HD. I used the latest 'DiskImage' to read it and it worked fine. I even tried it with some old FFS files and it still worked. The only snag that may come-up is installing 'boot-blocks'. Normally, floppies are made without them; but have to be 'installed' for boot-able floppies. You might not need that, huh?