[Coco] Moving from SyQuest EZ-135 to CompactFlash

James Dessart dessart at istop.com
Mon May 17 12:06:36 EDT 2004


On 17-May-04, at 11:54 AM, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:

> Here's how:
>
> 1. Insert your CF into a USB card reader on the Mac.
> 2. The card shouldn't have a recognizable filesystem, so OS X will put 
> up an alert... click on the "Ignore" button
> 3. At terminal, type:   dd if=/dev/disk1 of=myimage.dsk
> 4. Wait for the image to transfer form the CF (/dev/disk1) to the 
> myimage.dsk file.
>
> That's it...

Wow, much simpler than my explanation. :) Of course, this assumes that 
the CF card shows up as /dev/disk1. It may not, depending on the 
machine's configuration.

James




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