Vampire 500v2 microSD card question

[kirk_m]

It works fine for me.  Did you do the whole "giggledisk" thing to make the mountlist as per the instructions?  Also, do you have a card that is considered compatible (there's some kind of program that gives you all the specs of the card when you run it, it is included in the saga drivers)?  

I don't use it for this purpose though.  Instead, I use it for networking, via a SDNET adapter.  Much better usage of the slot, seeing it's worthless for transfers in the fashion of the PCMCIA slot / CF adapter of an A1200 or the ACA500+.

[kirk_m]

Thanks - yes, the giggledisk thing (creates a mountlist file) is automatically initiated when you execute sdmount. Have to manually input, not just verify as it never pops up for me, the correct file system. Now I can use a microSD card as an Amiga HD. Whee!  lol

...but are you saying that you're using the microSD slot as "on the fly" removable mass media?? That's what I'd really like to use it for. Even when I setup the card with the FATFileSystem and ensure Fat95 is in devs/dosdrivers - still nothing. Format the card as FAT using my Mac, but can never get the Amiga to see it as such. Icon always comes up with :NDOS. Try formatting as FAT on the Amiga side and get an error.

And never heard of an SDNET adapter. Can you point to where and what exactly it is?

I *THINK* It only reads native amigaOS partitioned SD cards, so, you can't use it to easily transfer files from a Mac or PC using a FAT file system.

SDNET is a network adapter  that a guy on the Commodore Amiga Facebook group makes and sells.  I'm sure there are others selling it.  There should be an SDNET.DEVICE installed from the SAGA drivers in your DEVS:NETWORKS folder or similar.   You can see how it works by googling -- there is a youtube video of it at work.  It is an SD slot to ETHERNET adapter.