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CF Card Recognition
« on: January 21, 2006, 06:20:34 PM »
Fellas,

I want to replace my error-riven HD with a CF card.

I have a 256Mb Lexar CF card and a chinese IDE to CF adaptor.

I set the card in the adaptor correctly, and I set the jumper to 'master'.

I then switch my A1200 on and absolutely nothing happens. If I switch off, set the jumper to 'slave', when I switch back on the card flashes a bit and does nothing more. A minute or so later the floppy drive comes to life and I can load workbench.

But, using either HDTools or Adprep, I cannot get the machine to detect the card! no matter what I do, it will not recognise the card.

Can anyone help me here please?

Peter :boohoo:
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Re: CF Card Recognition
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2006, 07:20:06 PM »
Hi,

No, the IDE cable has only one connector at either end, and so the CF card is the only hardware device attached.

Peter
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Re: CF Card Recognition
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2006, 07:57:57 PM »
Moto,

The problem is that I cannot boot the machine at all in master. If set to slave, the floppy will eventually churn, so I can load workbench 3.1 from the floppy. I can then get at HDTool box and RDPrep (via a floppy)but none of them can 'see' the hardware at all.

The CF card goes onto my IDE cable and I have to disconnect the harddisk before I can do that.

I don't have to set my floppy drive to 'slave' do I? If so, how?

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Re: CF Card Recognition
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2006, 08:21:27 PM »
Moto,

No. I was lead to believe that the power comes from the ide cable. There are no extra pins left behind once the ide cable is attached to the Adaptor. There is a small light which stays lit when the jumper is set to master and flashes once or twice only when set as Slave.

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Re: CF Card Recognition
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2006, 12:14:42 PM »
Moto,

Thanks for that. How did you come by your 4-way buffered interface? Did you make it yourself or did you purchase it? and if the latter, from where?

Peter
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Re: CF Card Recognition
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2006, 01:20:59 PM »
Doobry,

Thanks for the above. I presume that the cable is connected OK at the motherboard, because I simply disconnect what is a working HD and (obviously when powered-down) connect the adaptor to it observing the arrowed pin number one indicator.

When I took the card out of the adaptor, after a couple of seconds of inactivity the floppy kicked-in and I can load WB from there. But still RDPrep, when loaded from a second floppy disk drive, does not pick up the device.

Peter
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