Buddha. How To???!??

[Iggy_Drougge]

The Buddha ignores camera flash cards. The only alternative is to buy an "industrial" CF card or to tell the card to identify itself as a hard drive, using a small MS-DOS program. This works with Sandisk cards, I don't know if it works with other brands.

[Iggy_Drougge]

Marcb wrote:
I've got two CF cards running off a Buddha: one in Amiga 2000 and the other in an Amiga 3000.... I don't remember doing anything special to set them up other than partitioning and formatting them both with WinUae...

It would be interesting to know what cards you're using, since most people are having problem with Buddha and CF.

[Iggy_Drougge]

Marcb wrote:
4gb 'DSE' Compact Flash cards, DSE is a chain of Australian electronics retail stores... I assume they buy them from an o/s supplier and rebadge them, but how to find out the original brand???

Perhaps it says in HDtoolbox.

[Iggy_Drougge]

mchaggis wrote:
Well I've just gone out and bought a 160GB PATA HDD; dropped it in and connected up first time. And given the MASSIVE price difference between CF and an IDE drive, based upon storage, I reckon I've made the right decision.

Funny, I'm usually looking for as small cards as possible for my "spare" Amigas. I don't need more than a hundred megabytes on my A600, and filling a 160 GB drive on any 68k Amiga is going to be a challenge.

[Iggy_Drougge]

mchaggis wrote:
I partitioned the HD up to as close to 4GB as I could, but right at the very end of a long format operation. It stopped and said the HDD was not a DOS Disk; and now the drive is stuck "validating". Which is annoying.

Any suggestions on 'validating' the hdd? I dont want to repartition and format it again; that took AGES!

Ages? Partitioning a hard drive shouldn't take more than ten minutes.
As for partitioning, I'd suggest you make several partitions under the 4 GB limit, so you can have several boot partitions (if not for different OSes then simply for having a bootable backup).