My A1200 does not like my CF - anything I could do?

[Everblue]

I have been successfully using a 512MB no name CF for a while, so I decided to get something bigger. Reading on forums I found out that 2gig and 4gig Transcend compact flash cards (x133) work great, so I decided to go for an 8gig. I mean, what could go wrong?

Short answer: everything

Long answer:

I tried to do various things, create partitions of various sizes (even smaller than 1 gig), and tried both FAT and FAT32 formats - absolutely no luck.

Sometimes when I remove the CF from the PCMCIA adapter, it gives me some error in German.

Anything else I could do before I chuck them into the bin*?

Thank you in advance!


E'Blue


*Metaphorically

[Everblue]

I do have a 4meg expansion card in the trap door, but afaik its compatible with the PCMCIA port, hence, I have been using a 512MB card with the pcmcia adapter previously.

[Everblue]

Alright, I will remove the card and try again. Thanks for the heads up.

[Everblue]

I removed the board as you suggested, no difference

It still doesnt come up in workbench, and when I remove the card... BANG - German error!


 :-(

[Everblue]

Here you go:

DISK " "
Zu Fruh Entnommen!
wiederholen /aAbrechen

[Everblue]

Sorry, where do I find prepcard?

[Everblue]

Ok - I tried some stuff:

PREPCARD: This detects the CF (including its name!), but when I select FORMAT, it says something along the lines of "Disk is write protected".

FORMAT: Both CC0: and CF0: are listed but the sizes are weird, like 20k and 0k.

Side note: I have IDEFIX installed.

Any ideas what I could do to get my CF working?

Cheers


E'Blue

[Everblue]

This sucks. I wanted an 8gb card thats why I bought this one. Amigakit only sell 1gb cards.

So, my "last hope" is that I use it internally once I receive the IDE to CF adapter which is in the post.

[Everblue]

With nearly 6 gigs of WHDLoad Games - the whole collection.

[Everblue]

I dont ahve that icon... its just listed if I use the FORMAT: software.

[Everblue]

Ok here is an update....

I installed an updated version of compactflash.device (from aminet) and now the Amiga detects the card (Yesssss!!!!!)

Two remaining problems:

1. The card is not detected if I switch on the Amiga with the CF in the slot. If I do, I have to remove and re-insert.

2. I created a number of partitions (on the PC) on the CF, but the Amiga only sees the first partition.

Any ideas how to fix 1 and 2

Thanks!

[Everblue]

But with another CF (512MB), it works even if I boot the A1200 with the card inserted....

[Everblue]

delshay wrote:

Everblue wrote:
But with another CF (512MB), it works even if I boot the A1200 with the card inserted....

insert the card and turn your A1200 on you will not see the CF card.

if you pull the card out & then reinsert the card without a reset the amiga will then see the card regardless of what type of card is in the slot.

a hardware or software is required to fix the problem.

If I insert the 512MB and switch on the A1200, WB will "see it". But doing the same thing with the 8GB CF, it wont. BTW, I have Amigakit's software installed.