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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: dougal on November 18, 2011, 04:09:14 PM

Title: Why only few CF cards work for me
Post by: dougal on November 18, 2011, 04:09:14 PM
I have 2 or 3 PCMCIA/CF adapters and quite a few CF cards.

But only about 2 of my CF cards seem to work on the Amiga.

Why is that? They all work fine on the PC.
Title: Re: Why only few CF cards work for me
Post by: Leffmann on November 18, 2011, 04:30:02 PM
The problem is with the device drivers. There's an exhaustive thread about it on the EAB: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=61666
Title: Re: Why only few CF cards work for me
Post by: Erol on November 18, 2011, 05:09:51 PM
Quote from: Leffmann;668317
The problem is with the device drivers. There's an exhaustive thread about it on the EAB: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=61666


I love the sound of a whirling hard drive in an Amiga..   i'm sticking with HD.
Title: Re: Why only few CF cards work for me
Post by: Jiffy on November 18, 2011, 06:16:05 PM
Quote from: Erol;668320
I love the sound of a whirling hard drive in an Amiga..   i'm sticking with HD.


While I do like the whirring sound of a hard drive, I find the neatness of an ide flash drive (not a compact flash card with an adapter, no, a real ide flash drive) even more to my liking in old computers like my A1200. Compact, rugged, no noise, fast, reliable: perfect.

When it comes to my daily dose of whirring noises, I'll listen to my server (4 hard drives, several fans). And when I feel really retro, I'm printing a program listing on one of my two matrix printers (9 pins & 24 pins). Now thát's a great sound! :-)

Pretty soon I'll have my perfect compact Amiga sitting here on my desk: an A600 with ACA630, Indivision ECS, A604, Subway and, of course, an 8 GB Transcend IDE flash drive. The most neglected Amiga of all has at last come of age and is now a desirable part of the Amiga family.
Title: Re: Why only few CF cards work for me
Post by: Erol on November 18, 2011, 06:44:08 PM
Quote from: Jiffy;668331

Pretty soon I'll have my perfect compact Amiga sitting here on my desk: an A600.

A600 is a cute machine..  
I wonder what happened to PAWS600
Title: Re: Why only few CF cards work for me
Post by: dougal on November 19, 2011, 07:21:16 AM
No this is the PCMCIA to CF adapter. I am using a real (if you call the original 170mb hd real) hard drive. That is soon gonna be replaced with a 20Gb.

My problem is the PCMCIA
Title: Re: Why only few CF cards work for me
Post by: Erol on November 19, 2011, 02:01:39 PM
You need to have cfd.lha and fat95.lha from aminet and configure them properly.

CC0: is not suitable for anything but ancient SRAM cards when formatted to use as storage. Won't work with SD/CF.


You may already know this but, Kickstart 2.05 (V37.350) is recommended if you wish to use larger hard drives or CF cards in an A600.