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Offline kidkoalaTopic starter

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Installing os3.9 to Compactflash on cd32 "No disk present"
« on: December 01, 2006, 05:55:49 PM »
Hey..

I've finally gotten my cf-adapters and cf-cards, installed an adapter and a card in my cd32 ide-slot.

When booting up from workbench 3.1 disk and entering hdtoolbox, it finds a drive at "scsi 2nd. 0". I enter the "new definition" and "read configuration". I get a message that the disk is "not a disk drive (type 7)", but i can proceed. The partition is set to bootable, sfs/ffs etc.
I boot up and notice that the drive dh0: is listed in the early startup, and that it's enabled. Booting up from workbench 3.1 disk again and now i want to format the partition. I try first from cli, writing "info" i find the dh0: listed, but it says it's "No disk present".
When trying to format with "format Drive dh0: name dho"
it says something like "not a disk" or similar (can't remember). When i try to format it from hdsetup it says "can't format your drive" or something like that.

anyone got any idea? seems like it can't use the cf-card?
i've installed 3.9 on a hdd in the same ide-slot so that's ok. it's a 2gb samsung (or so the ebay seller said, seems like a fake) cf-card. the cf-adapter is set to master with the jumper.
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Re: Installing os3.9 to Compactflash on cd32 "No disk present"
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2006, 03:08:34 AM »
no, sorry that i didn't inform you, i've got a sx32 mk2, almost the same as sx1 but with 8mb ram, fpu etc.
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Re: Installing os3.9 to Compactflash on cd32 "No disk present"
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2006, 02:03:34 PM »
thanks a lot!

I thought i was totally lost here, will try unchecking in partition manager first, then if that doesn't work i'll patch hdtoolbox (though i don't have communication between pc and amiga yet, so i'll have to wait for my parallel-cable to arive..
I'll post results.

EDIT:

Ok, removing FFS, DC and IM did not work, but I might have not done it correct I guess..(I entered hdtoolbox, and into partition manager, unchecking the three and save changes, booting and entering cli, same problem; says disk not present, and formatting is not possible.

How do I apply that hdtoolbox patch? I'm a bit green on that area, can i just put hdtoolbox in ramdisk and patch it there? or do i have to  put it on a floppy and patch it there? how do i patch?
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