cf-card for Amiga600/1200

[som99]

Take whatever CF card you find, the PCMCIA adapter is passive and all normal CF cards still follows the specifications and can be used. (there are a few changes to the later DMA cards and there are some problems with some cards when used as PATA drives but that wont effect the PCMCIA use you need it for).

Are you planning to use a CF card with FAT and have the software needed?

[som99]

You need compactflash.device and FAT95 if you are going to use FAT.

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/cfd
http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/fat95

[som99]

Did you get it all up and running?

[som99]

Are you sure that the passive adapter is a 16 bit card? What CF/PCMCIA adapter are you using?

Can you see the CF card in WinUAE?

Edit: Also what brands and sizes of cards are you using? Cheapo crapo cards from ebay (are even fake labeled ones there) are something to stay away from.

[som99]

what happens if you double click /devs/CF0?

[som99]

"CF0: is mounted"

Still "no disk present"?

Do a fresh format of the cards on another machine and try again (be sure not to NTFS, exFAT, EXT*, JFS, XFS etc format them).

I know people have had trouble with CF cards, but as long as I stay at the bigger brands I have had zero problems with em for PCMCIA but some won't work as a PATA device.


Kingston works great for me, but honestly I probably have near 100 CF cards and all big brand cards worked without any problem for me, some shady questionable brands cheap out on the onboard controller and won't work on the miggy but all others I have tried works flawless :S

What cards are they? Size and brands?

Edit: also try the other version of CDF on aminet.

[som99]

I have not used SDformat so don't know anything about it.

Smells something wrong with FAT95, have you put fat95 inside :L?

Select CF0 and do a QUICK format in Workbench and see if you can use the card with FFS.

[som99]

@alphadec - Do you have any expansion cards on your A1200? Ram expansions or CPU expansions etc that might conflict with the PCMCIA? If yes, remove and see if it works.