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Title: ADAPCMCFL not reading CF cards on A1200
Post by: allanmb on March 20, 2009, 01:46:08 PM

I recently bought an  ADAPCMCFL EasyADF kit to hopefully read standard Compact Flash cards so I could transfer data from my PC to Amiga and vice versa however it is not working.  I have followed the installation instructions and CF0 is mounted however when I try to access CF0: it says no disk is inserted.  The green light shows on the CF reader.  I have tried this with and without my trapdoor accelerator card - neither seems to work.  Has anyone else had this problem?  Or does anyone have any ideas how to get it working?  The PCMCIA CF reader works on my PC laptop so I think the hardware side is functional.

Thanks
Allan

Title: Re: ADAPCMCFL not reading CF cards on A1200
Post by: F0LLETT on March 22, 2009, 09:43:39 AM

More likely your CF Card is not compatible.

Title: Re: ADAPCMCFL not reading CF cards on A1200
Post by: allanmb on March 22, 2009, 10:49:00 AM

I have tried a few different CF cards and an SD card, none of which seem to work :-(

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F0LLETT wrote:
More likely your CF Card is not compatible.

Title: Re: ADAPCMCFL not reading CF cards on A1200
Post by: djbase on March 22, 2009, 10:54:51 AM

Do you have the Fat Filesystem in L:?

Title: Re: ADAPCMCFL not reading CF cards on A1200
Post by: motorollin on March 22, 2009, 10:56:48 AM

I have been having this problem, and apparently it's because the CF card is set to removable rather than fixed disk. Some cards, e.g. Sandisk, allow you to change this with a tool.

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moto

Title: Re: ADAPCMCFL not reading CF cards on A1200
Post by: allanmb on March 22, 2009, 11:05:30 AM

Do you know where I can get such a tool?

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motorollin wrote:
I have been having this problem, and apparently it's because the CF card is set to removable rather than fixed disk. Some cards, e.g. Sandisk, allow you to change this with a tool.

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moto

Title: Re: ADAPCMCFL not reading CF cards on A1200
Post by: allanmb on March 22, 2009, 11:11:59 AM

Yes, I have fat95 and CrossDos in L:

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DJBase wrote:
Do you have the Fat Filesystem in L:?

Title: Re: ADAPCMCFL not reading CF cards on A1200
Post by: motorollin on March 22, 2009, 11:14:57 AM

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allanmb wrote:
Do you know where I can get such a tool?

For Sandisk cards you apparently need atcfwchg.com and/or ndcfwchg.com. No idea where you would find them as I don't have any Sandisk cards. You could try Googling those filenames.

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moto

Title: Re: ADAPCMCFL not reading CF cards on A1200
Post by: amigakit on March 22, 2009, 12:40:18 PM

Sorry to hear of your problem

Did you buy one of our tested cards with the adapter or are you using your own?

Please note that if you have a RAM expansion on an A1200 larger than 4MB it will block the PCMCIA port- stopping PCMCIA cards from working.  It may be worthwhile using the PrepCard utility to check that the PCMCIA card is connected and recognized by the A1200- don't use any of the functions of PrepCard- just use it to confirm successful connection.  Also don't worry if it PrepCard reports that the card is corrupt (this is normal message).

Also do you have the same results when booting from the ADAPCMCFL disk directly?

Here is a tutorial video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNwVbbWpI4c

Title: Re: ADAPCMCFL not reading CF cards on A1200
Post by: allanmb on March 22, 2009, 01:07:10 PM

I am trying my own cards, but I have several and neither seem to work.

I have tried removing the RAM expansion to see if that interfered but it still didnt work.  I also tried running it from my hard drive and by booting the dist but still no luck :-(

Does prepcard come with the kit?

Thanks
Allan

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amigakit wrote:
Sorry to hear of your problem

Did you buy one of our tested cards with the adapter or are you using your own?

Please note that if you have a RAM expansion on an A1200 larger than 4MB it will block the PCMCIA port- stopping PCMCIA cards from working.  It may be worthwhile using the PrepCard utility to check that the PCMCIA card is connected and recognized by the A1200- don't use any of the functions of PrepCard- just use it to confirm successful connection.  Also don't worry if it PrepCard reports that the card is corrupt (this is normal message).

Also do you have the same results when booting from the ADAPCMCFL disk directly?

Here is a tutorial video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNwVbbWpI4c

Title: Re: ADAPCMCFL not reading CF cards on A1200
Post by: amigakit on March 22, 2009, 03:10:06 PM

Prepcard is in the Tools drawer in your Workbench partition.  Use it for simply checking a successful connection of the PCMCIA card with the A1200.  If there is no connection, then your PCMCIA port may be faulty or something blocking access.

Title: Re: ADAPCMCFL not reading CF cards on A1200
Post by: allanmb on March 22, 2009, 03:21:22 PM

When I run PrepCard with the adapter in and no CF card it says 'no card inserted' and N/A for everything else.  When I insert a CF card it then says device 'unknown'.  Is this ok?

Title: Re: ADAPCMCFL not reading CF cards on A1200
Post by: amigakit on March 22, 2009, 04:54:40 PM

This sounds OK- I would imagine that the media cards are not Amiga compatible.  Do they appear as CF0:NDOS or CF0:???? on the Workbench screen?

Title: Re: ADAPCMCFL not reading CF cards on A1200
Post by: allanmb on March 22, 2009, 06:04:14 PM

No disk at all shows on the WB screen.  I have to go to a shell and type "CF0:" and then it says no disk inserted.

Allan

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amigakit wrote:
This sounds OK- I would imagine that the media cards are not Amiga compatible.  Do they appear as CF0:NDOS or CF0:???? on the Workbench screen?