Why cant I format my CF Card on a500+

[Azryl]

Cool.. quite a good read, helped many years ago when I setup a 4gig cf card in my A1200.

Az

[Azryl]

Normally to help speed up a booting workbench you should add some extra buffers to the startup-sequence

addbuffers=30

should be seen at the top of the s/startup-sequence, beware that each buffer eats about 20kbytes of available ram.

az

[Azryl]

Ideas? Yup...  try 2 or 3 different manufacturers cards, CF cards seems to have limitations placed within themselves regarding speed, interface type etc

I have found some cheap ebay CF cards work better than big name brands
why this is so.. no idea

I have an 1200 with a 4gig CF card installed on an adapter and it works perfectly. Not sure if the gayle adapter works similar to the IDE built into 1200's

Swap out some smaller/brands of CF and see what happens?

Az

[Azryl]

You should try a CF card that is much smaller. Under 1gig if possible, see if you have a faster read/write speed even with the older tech inside the card.

Also, is you CF reader a twin system? Above and under the reader are positions for insert CF cards? Master/slave maybe causing issues?

My 1200 I has a single reader, 90degree adapter, works perfectly.

Az

[Azryl]

Awesome! Glad your CF reader and IDE interface are now working correctly. Now swap them out into the rev8 board and have MORE fun

Az