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Title: How do I check my PCMCIA port
Post by: Chartus on July 21, 2008, 04:28:30 AM

I have been trying to get a compact flash card reader to work but no joy. How can I test the port ? I want to use fat95 so I can move files from the PC to Amiga.

SOLVED IT FINALLY.  DOS disk was giving me some problems because of the 8.3 filename limitation.  It was shortening some of the filenames when I extracted them onto the floppy disk.  NOTE TO SELF.... extract all files directly to the hard drive.  Still had problems with fat95. I had extracted the fat95.lha to the L dir.  Not a good move.  I finally figured out that fat95 file need to go in the L directory NOT the fat95 dir.  I waisted around 2 hours trying to do this.  The fat95 file would not copy to the L dir BECAUSE of the fat95 Dir.  I got it to copy after deleting all of the fat95 dir.  I guess that was a noob mistake. So I got that installed correctly but it still wouldn't work    :-?  :-?  Must be the cf0 part that is messed up.  I checked that but it looked OK so I went to DEVS to look at the compactflash.device driver.    :evil: bad DOS bad DOS:evil:   It was shortened becuause of the 8.3 problem.  Renamed it to the right filename and rebooted  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  IT WORKS  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Title: Re: How do I check my PCMCIA port
Post by: adolescent on July 21, 2008, 04:37:40 AM

Run CardPrep and see what it says.  You can also try running card_info from the cnet.device (http://aminet.net/package/driver/net/cnetdevice) archive.

Title: Re: How do I check my PCMCIA port
Post by: alexh on July 21, 2008, 06:58:30 AM

You need to have installed the CFD driver (http://aminet.net/package/driver/media/cfd) onto your hard drive inside the Amiga first. Has that been done?

You could also consider installing this patch (http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/CardReset) too

Title: Re: How do I check my PCMCIA port
Post by: meega on July 21, 2008, 08:49:23 AM

Well, first you have to teach it to play chess.... ;-)

Title: Re: How do I check my PCMCIA port
Post by: Chartus on July 21, 2008, 11:28:41 PM

I have installed CFD in the DEVS/Dosdrivers  directory.  When I click on cf0 it says that cf0 is already mounted.  It looks like that part is working right.  I don't know if I got fat95 installed correctly. (goes in L) Would you tell me exactly what files are in L directory so I can check to see if I have them all.  I seem to remember that I got a 'compactflash.device not active' error message once but I don't remember what I did to generate it.

I will try the patch to see if that helps.

This A600 sure is a cranky beast.

Title: Re: How do I check my PCMCIA port
Post by: Chartus on July 24, 2008, 02:33:21 AM

Played around with Prepcard and tried 3 flash cards.  They all show up in the Product window.  DanElec says Normal ATA,  PNY shows up as Toshiba, and Adata says CF 1GB.  Then I click on Prepare as Disk ,get the warning, click continue, it says busy, and then 'Unable to prepare card: Error while writing changes.The IOdevice speeds are 80ns on 2 and 250ns on 1.

Title: Re: How do I check my PCMCIA port
Post by: rkauer on July 24, 2008, 02:44:58 AM

 Prepcard is no good to format drives for FAT file system!

 Format it in the pc.

Title: Re: How do I check my PCMCIA port
Post by: Chartus on July 24, 2008, 02:58:31 AM

I format them on the PC but then they don't show up when I plug them in.

Title: Re: How do I check my PCMCIA port
Post by: rkauer on July 24, 2008, 04:07:27 AM

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Chartus wrote:
I format them on the PC but then they don't show up when I plug them in.

 Check again if you have all the required files in the right place.

 CFD.device in DEVS:Dosdrivers , FAT16 (or any other name it haves) in L: ...