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Offline Questor7Topic starter

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One Sick Miggy cont'd, PCMCIA slot problems
« on: August 15, 2010, 03:06:38 PM »
Bought a A1200 from a US member on here who listed it(on Ebay) as a "A1200 with compact flash HD, w/games". Wanted to try my luck at using a IBM HD 10Gig and
rebuild the system from scratch. Had to reach back to my old MFM HD days and got the drive working, but now I find the PCMCIA slot has a rather odd
issue. I have 2 CF cards and different readers that are 2 Gig(Sandisk) and 4 Gig(Sandisk) but show up as 80Ns memory; these work fine. I have another set
which are 4Gig (1 Kingston, 1 Sandisk) but they show as being 400Ns(Nanosecond); they both refuse to work. All 4 cards work in my other 1200 with no
issues. I have completely copied the OS and programs from the working MiggyHD to the one having issues. I have also tried both accelerator cards (GVP JawsII,
MTEC 1200)I have in both machines, everything works in the one A1200 but not the one I am rebuilding. Is there anywhere I can set the speed, maxtransfer
of the PCMCIA port. I'd hate to have to go get another motherboard just for the PCMCIA slot.
All advice welcomed....:confused:
 

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Re: One Sick Miggy cont'd, PCMCIA slot problems
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2010, 07:09:49 PM »
Update, I have found that the drives can be formatted at shown to be formatted in the working machine. It looks like the read function has a issue in the PCMCIA..
 

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Re: One Sick Miggy cont'd, PCMCIA slot problems
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2010, 07:16:46 PM »
If you are about to use CF cards in a CF/ide adapter. those cf cards are not going to work in pcmcia, in any way...
pcmcia is for transfering files to and from the amiga. the cards has to formatted as such. (think it is fat 16 or fat 31, not sure)
When the cf cards are formatted in a cf/ide converter they are no longer removable media. they are now a permanent hard disk drive.
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Re: One Sick Miggy cont'd, PCMCIA slot problems
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2010, 08:20:55 PM »
There are also drivers on aminet to read fat16 formatted cf cards that you read through a pcmcia fca card adapter.