Tutorial: How to Install A Compact Flash Drive Into the A1200 And A600

[motorollin]

tom_a_spar wrote:
think of Compact Flash drive as a boot drive
something that well get you into the workbench

then you use a usb based hard drive to store all your other stuff

What's the point of that? A USB hard disk on an Amiga would be SO SLOW, would take up all the CPU time while being accessed, would not work in a lot of software (e.g. WHDLoad games which don't like the USB stack to be running) etc etc. If you don't want all your data stored on a CompactFlash card you might as well just use a hard drive inside your Amiga.

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moto

[motorollin]

I don't think that will work as simply as you think. Your Amiga's CF card contains an RDB - an Amiga partition table. This is not readable by Windows, even if it contains a FAT partition. You would have to use the CF card within an Amiga emulator under Windows.

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moto