scm PCD-50B question

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I would go back and check your termination, also comment out or delete all the settings from HDToolbox except for "ASKDEVICE".

Here is a quick photo of one of mine, you can see it's detecting all the LUN's (I have two cards installed in this particular system, a CF in slot 0 and an xD in slot 5; ID 2 is my DVD drive):

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

But it reads the cards in LUN's 0 and 1 successfully?

What version of HDToolbox?

Try setting the reader to a different SCSI ID #?

Is the termination jumper on, and are there any other devices in the chain?

What controller?

Is this one of Mechy's readers?  I have the PCD-60B models, which as I recall were a "little bit better", but I can't recall the difference.  Perhaps shoot him a PM and ask if he has any advice?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Edit - anything in this thread helpful?

Post #5:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=65297

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

You're formatting with FFS?  Or something else?

Personally I always do a fresh reinstall of the OS on any new device, if I'm planning on making it my primary device (that goes for Windows or whatever, really).  Only way to make sure you have a clean system, then you can use your old card as a backup.

Wonder if a 68010 would let you run 3.9?  Granted it would be dog-slow unless you dropped the screen colors and replaced the icons with MWB or something, but they're only like $5 on ebay.  From what I recall only a handful of programs in 3.9 actually "require" an '020+ (instructions), anyway.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

It's going to be DOS.  Will be using the SD card for my bridgeboard hard drive.

Not sure if I understand correctly, think I'm getting lost on this thread.    But to clarify, you're trying to prep the device with two cards:

1 - a CF card (presumably formatted with FFS) for your Amiga partition
2 - an SD card formatted as FAT/FAT32/"FAT95" for your DOS partition

Correct?

I would take it a step back and make sure the CF card is working 100% before trying to add another card.

For the FAT95/DOS partition I've never had any luck prepping them through HDToolbox; easier to just create a Mountlist/DOSDriver entry on your Miggy and format the card on a PC, that's what I do.  Then I can interchangeably pop it out of my Amiga and into the card reader on my PC to transfer files.  I still use it often enough that I sometimes forget that my Amiga has USB, too.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

HDInstTools has a Last Lun option, and something similar seems to be missing in WB3.1 HDToolBox

That's the same thing that Thomas said to me recently, when I had an unrelated issue.  My problem actually turned out to be me being a dumbass and not using HDToolbox correctly, coupled with having one bad card that was throwing me off.

In Curtis's case however, maybe his limiting factor may be the 3.1 version of HDToolbox?  I swear by the 3.9 version, however, and would use that over HDInstTools, any day.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

All that trouble because you wouldn't go out and buy a decent $15 cf

Mechy, you know Amiga users are notoriously cheap!  :hammer:

:roflmao:  :roflmao:

No offense Curtis, glad you got it sorted!  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

on pcd60-i have never owned a XD Picture Card so i cant comment on sizes it can handle.XD cards come in sized up to 2GB,so my guess is that is it.

My old Fuji camera uses xD cards and I have successfully used type M and M+ cards up to 2GB many times without issue.

Lost my darned type H card, it was so much faster, don't know where around here I put it!  

1200 readers, I hope you made a good profit!   I got mad when I saw people reselling yours on ebay for 2-3x what you were selling them for.  

Care to tell us any stories about how you came across all those?  :lol: