cf-card for Amiga600/1200

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I have a 256MB FAT95-formatted SD card that I occasionally use for transferring files between my Amiga and PC (I have card readers in both, so I just pop from one to the other).  I set it up last year sometime, but having absolutely no experience with FAT95 prior to that, I can tell you I found it an absolutely infuriating head-scratcher of a PITA.  Much more difficult than it needed to be, with no clear online instructions or guides available anywhere.  :angry:

Hang tight, if you're unable to figure it out I'll try to make some screenshots of my config for you later today, might help?  Good luck!

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

As you can see, nothing too special going on here.  I can't for the life of me remember how I got it all set up.  I'm pretty sure I had to format the device on a PC though, possibly a couple times doing a "slow" format (un-check "quick"), before it took.  As you can see I used fat32, works fine, the Amiga recognizes it seamlessly.  Just like any other partition or removable disk.  Pop it out, the icon goes away off Workbench.  Pop it back in, it shows back up.

Maybe confirm your version of l:fat95 matches mine?

Actually, you know what?  I just turned around to take a couple more pictures.  You need to create a Devs/DOSDriver textfile for your device.  Last two pics is what mine looks like.  Struuugggling to recall, but I think this is where I had trouble - you need to create one, but where do you get the values?  I think this is where I really hit a wall, none of the examples are even close to what I was trying to do, eventually just wound up going with trial-and-error guesswork for things like "Unit #" (mine is different because the cardreader has LUN's...), etc.

Hope this helps!  

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[Oldsmobile_Mike]

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[Oldsmobile_Mike]

One more pic.  You can see I thought I was being cute by giving it a Windows icon back when I set this up.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Attached is a zip of my Dosdriver file (the text portion and the icon).  You should be able to extract this on your PC, and edit the text portion with any text editor on your Amiga.  Obviously you'll want to change the header, and the device (probably from gvpscsi.device to scsi.device or compactflash.device on the A1200), the Unit # (you should be able to get your unit # from HDToolbox, on an A1200 it'll probably be something obvious, like "1"), MaxTransfer, blah blah.  The only thing I have no idea what to tell you on is the "DosType" field.  Maybe try what I have in there and cross your fingers?  Good luck!  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Here it is another way:

[FONT="]/* FAT95: file system for 256MB SD card              */

FileSystem    = l:fat95
Device        = gvpscsi.device
Unit          = 31        /* change drive number here */
Flags         = 0
LowCyl        = 0
HighCyl       = 1
Surfaces      = 1        /* bootblock values have priority over these */
BlocksPerTrack    = 1
Buffers       = 50
BufMemType    = 1
MaxTransfer   = 0x0001FE00
Mask          = 0x7FFFFFFC
BootPri       = 0
Stacksize     = 4096
Priority      = 5
GlobVec       = -1
Mount         = 1
Activate      = 1
DosType       = 0x46415401    /* enable ETD commands */
[/FONT]
 

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

@Mike
Your posting that yours works fine, but your using USB. Not PCMCIA.
They are completely different and will work differently with different cards.

Incorrect, sir.  I am using a SCSI card reader.  Not quite so different from the way he's trying to do it.  

Edit:  As OP states in post #8, he doesn't know what a mountlist for fat95 is, or how to write one.  Now that I remember how I did it, I provided an example of mine.  OP just needs to modify to suit his particular device, I think.  This is assuming he wants to format the CF as fat95 (so he can use it to exchange files with a PC), as opposed to some native, Amiga-only format.  

Edit 2:  Here is a long thread with some good information on creating mountlists for fat95:  http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=67430

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Paul is right everything is included.

Man, you A1200 users have it easy.  I felt like an idiot, bashing my head against a wall trying to figure out FAT95 on an A2000!  :lol: