Hi,
@Crawff,
Put the CF drive in the Amiga 1200 as you would usually do, put the 3.1 Amiga OS in the drive and fire up the A1200, once the OS loads, go to hard disk toolbox and fire that up, it should show your CF drive as a scsi disk such and such. from there you just partition, restart and then format your CF drive.
If this doesn't work, sell your defective A1200 to me for $5, I will even pay the shipping costs.
smerf