Problem with PCMCIA CF reader

[dougal]

Hi ,

I have a problem with my COMPACT FLASH reader and memory card .

Basicly i have copied the drivers and the FAT95 ok .
The CF0: is mounted too , BUT no drive icon shows up .

I have tried to format but it says that no disk is inserted
I have tried to access CF0: from shell but same , no disk is inserted .

When i tried prepcard it sees that i have a card inserted and it even says the make of my CF card , but doesnt say the size . I have tried 2 CF cards and both give same result .

Both cards are FAT formatted using Windows XP

What could be wrong ?


My setup is :

Commodore A1200 with Blizzard 030 accelerator
2mb Chip + 16mb Fast ram
2Gb Internal IDE HDD
Kickstart 3.0 + OS 3.9 installed
Using Blizkick to make Amiga 3.1 so it runs 3.9
PCMCIA CF reader = PCMCIA Adapter Compact Flash Type II
CF card = Kingston 2GB or Sandisk 1GB

[dougal]

Nope no flower on the sandisk . It is blue with a red top part saying Sandisk . bottom part says 1.0 GB CompactFlash

[dougal]

hmmmmmm

I have the PCMCIA network lan kit i could use instead , its fast , but kind of sucks .

[dougal]

I just bought another one from ebay . This time including a compact flash card (512mb) .

That way at least i know its the right CF

Cant wait for it to arrive

[dougal]

Its not that i can't format (Which i can't)

Its that i dont even get the CF0: icon or anything

In shell when i type CF0: i get "NO DISK"

I have installed FAT95 , card patch , CFO , and compactflash.device .

Prepcard sees the card and even says KINGSTON etc.. But thats it . Format finds CF0: and CC0: but with capacity on CF0 as 0 and on CC0: as 20K . Both cant be formatted .

I have tried two different cards (SANDISK & Kingston)

But nothing works .

I have tried booting from the disk that came with the card ,i have tried disabling my Blizzard card , turning on Amiga with adapter insterted and without , etc... etc..

Someone please help

save2600 wrote:
Are you guys using CardPatch & Fat95 on your system?

Aminet Linky to Cardpatch program

Aminet Linky to Fat95<>Amiga file system

For the record, I could NEVER get any of my A1200's to format a CF Card using the PCMCIA program in OS3.0-3.9. Like you've experienced, it would recognise that there was indeed a card there, but wouldn't properly deal with it otherwise. Not a big deal really, just another annoyance when a feature exists, but doesn't work.

[dougal]

So weird and annoying .

While in prepcard if i remove the card it goes , when i plug in it sees it right away .

But workbench does not give me the CF0: icon and format says no disk . Shell says no disk either .

So strange

allanmb wrote:
Thats pretty much what I have tried too!  i.e. just about everything.  And yes, I have everything installed and get the "no disk" when I access CF0:  And, Prepcard sees a card - just nothing...

[dougal]

help ?.... anyone?

[dougal]

I have definetaly tried FAT .. But im also quite sure i tried FAT32 .

I'll have another go when i get home.

allanmb wrote:
I have tried fat and fat32 - neither work :-(