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Title: About to install a CF hard drive, what should I watch out for?
Post by: blanning on March 05, 2009, 08:03:05 PM: I'm about to install a 2gb CF card with one of those ide adapters into my a600. The plan is to upgrade the machine to 3.1 roms, then put the CF card into a USB CF card reader on my XP box, then use WinUAE to format and install 3.1 on the drive. Is there anything I should watch out for? Any tricks that would be useful to know up front? thanks.

brian
Title: Re: About to install a CF hard drive, what should I watch out for?
Post by: darksun9210 on March 05, 2009, 08:11:55 PM: hmmm, i'm not sure how the card reader interfaces the CF card to the PC.
just to be sure, (i did pretty much exactly what you're planning to do) i had the CF card in an IDE adapter, attached to an IDE to USB adapter to connect to the PC, so it definately shows up as a hard disk type device...

you'll probably be fine, but thats just what i did and it worked out ok for my A600 :-)
Title: Re: About to install a CF hard drive, what should I watch out for?
Post by: amigagr on March 05, 2009, 08:22:25 PM: why don't you just install it direct on the amiga with hdtoolbox?
Title: Re: About to install a CF hard drive, what should I watch out for?
Post by: blanning on March 05, 2009, 09:04:43 PM: Quote

amije wrote:
why don't you just install it direct on the amiga with hdtoolbox?

I don't have 3.1 floppies. And it would be a bigger pain to make them than to just stick the CF card into my xp machine.

brian
Title: Re: About to install a CF hard drive, what should I watch out for?
Post by: DoogUK on March 05, 2009, 10:08:30 PM: You should consider installing classicwb for 68k on it.
Title: Re: About to install a CF hard drive, what should I watch out for?
Post by: Linde on March 05, 2009, 11:37:23 PM: I arranged my current setup on a CF card using WinUAE on the PC with a USB card reader. I had some problems with setting things at first, but I don't remember them exctly... Just remember that you have to press ENTER after you've filled in a value in HDToolbox to actually make the change :P. Check out eab.abime.net, I think they have some decent tutorials and tips on this stuff.

And now I have a WinUAE setup so I can use the "same" install in WinUAE and install all the programs I need quickly from windows folders. Transferring all the stuff from a PC to the Amiga can be pretty boring before you've set up some decent means of communication.
Title: Re: About to install a CF hard drive, what should I watch out for?
Post by: NovaCoder on March 05, 2009, 11:38:57 PM: Quote

blanning wrote:
I'm about to install a 2gb CF card with one of those ide adapters into my a600. The plan is to upgrade the machine to 3.1 roms, then put the CF card into a USB CF card reader on my XP box, then use WinUAE to format and install 3.1 on the drive. Is there anything I should watch out for? Any tricks that would be useful to know up front? thanks.

brian

This is a good plan, that is how I installed OS 3.9 on my CF (my Amiga 1200 has no CDROM drive).

It should work without issues, if you do have trouble try a slow format of the CF using the XP machine.
Title: Re: About to install a CF hard drive, what should I watch out for?
Post by: blanning on March 06, 2009, 05:17:58 AM: Thanks to everyone. I was hoping to get my rom in the mail today, but no luck. Now I'm hoping to get it tomorrow so I have the weekend.

brian