Compactflash Hard disk

[jimmy_n]

Just got a compactflash to 2.5" ide adapter fitted to my A1200.  I'm using an Impact 128Mb card., and want to use it as my main bootable drive.

After a few attempts at setting up the card using HDToolbox, I finally got the drive working ok.  Before that, I kept getting lots of checksum errors after formatting, and sometimes the drive wasn't detected at all.  But I must have done something differently cos it then started to work ok.

I managed to unLha my old HD contents onto the drive, and everything was working great... I could surf the net with no noise coming from the A1200 at all, and the disk access was pretty fast.  After a few reboots it was still working fine.

Then, after switching the machine off and a few hours later back on again, I was greeted with 'DH0: is not a dos disk' upon switching on the machine.  Switching on and off again, same thing.  Does anyone know what might be causing this, and will I have to format and reinstall everything again (is it worth it?)  :-?

[jimmy_n]

Thanks for the advice.  I've heard of peoples success using CF cards as a DH0:, but maybe they never got round to mentioning the bit where the CF card corrupts.  Saying that, could it be because I'm using a cheap brand CF card?

>>You can also get solid state drives that do not fragment.
>>I think they're from www.simpletech.com.
>>
>>They come in 800Mb and 2Gb sizes and are very fast.

Hyper, where can you get these from, tried looking up some info on the net and they were saying like $2000 for a 2Gig one, maybe not. I can't really use a PCMCIA drive as my ethernet adapter uses the PCMCIA port.

Thinking about getting a microdrive now - expensive though compared to 2.5" HD, but apparently very quiet so I might try and get one cheap off ebay.