CF card not detected under MOS 2.0/EFIKA

[motorollin]

(Also posted on MZ)

I have got a 512MB CF card in an adapter on the IDE interface and the install image on a USB drive. I can boot in to MOS from the install image, but I can't see the CF card in HDConfig or iWizard. All it sees is usbscsi.device:0 (but says "no medium inserted"). I have tried the adapter as master and slave and have also tried a 128MB card, but nothing works. Am I doing something wrong?

TIA

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moto

[motorollin]

Tcheko on MZ has answered this already!

Tcheko
Hello,

Nothing wrong.

This is a known issue that will be solved with next bugfix release.

Some CF/IDE work well, some other not.

Czk

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moto

[motorollin]

I think it is the card rather than the adapter which causes the problem, since the adapter is passive (nothing more than a cable really, perhaps with a couple of components for voltage adjustments). Though what you say is consistent with my experience, since the two cards I tried which failed to work in the EFIKA work fine in my A1200.

If anyone is using a CF card successfully with an EFIKA I would be really grateful if they could post the brand, model (if applicable) and capacity. If I can't find a working one I'll have to hope the bug is fixed soon since I don't have a 2.5" IDE hard drive I can use.

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moto

[motorollin]

Thanks pkillo. My other half has ordered a Transcend CF card to replace the hard drive in a Mac Mini, so I'll try it when it arrives. If it works I'll order one for my EFIKA.

Cheers!

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moto

[motorollin]

pkillo wrote:
No problem; I'm trying to hijack your thread on morphzone.org though, to see if I can find out anything about using the second card...  :-P

It's ok, I think I'm finished with that thread now. You can have it ;-)

pkillo wrote:
i've been considering trying out an external usb hard disk with the efika (just for data and maybe less resource intensive programs) as i just upgraded my media pc (alas, to a wintel box) and now have one that I could reformat but at usb 1.1 speed I'm not sure it would even be worth the effort.

I haven't actually got my EFIKA set up yet, but judging by how long it takes to boot the install image from a USB drive, it would be too slow to be usable even as a data drive :-( I'll report back here and on MZ whether the 16GB Transcend card worked. If it doesn't then I'll order the 4GB one you're using.

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moto