PCMCIA CF card size limit?

[mingle]

Hi,

I have a 4GB CF card which I'd like to use with my PCMCIA card reader on my A1200.

The reader works fine with the 8MB and 512MB CF cards I have, but when I put the 4GB card in, it doesn't appear on Workbench...

I suspect it's due to the fact the 4GB CF card appears to be formatted FAT32, rather than the FAT16 of the other two cards.

Is there any way to format the 4GB card so I can use it in the PCMCIA slot?

Cheers,

Mike.

[mingle]

Hi,

I have an XP machine... How do I format FAT16?

The only option in the format dialogue is FAT32...

When I format it in my digicam, it also goes to FAT32...

Cheers,

Mike.

[mingle]

@darksun,

That's the one... Works fine...

Cheers,

Mike.

[mingle]

Hi,

I spoke too soon!

While I could format the CF card to FAT16 on my PC, it still wasn't seen when I inserted the card in the A1200 (via the PCMCIA adapter).

Even though the CF0: device was mounted, it wasn't visible to workbench and gave an error when I try to do a "dir" from the shell...

I've tried 512MB FAT16 and 8MB FAT12 formatted CF cards and they both work fine...

Must be something to do with the 4GB size...

Cheers,

Mike.

[mingle]

My is a cheapo/generic "Omni" 4GB CF card and I have exactly the same issue as stefcp2...

I'm also having problems trying to use the same card (via an CF-IDE adapter) as a HDD replacement - I can only see two partitions...

Cheers,

Mike.