How to install a PCMCIA Compact Flash card on an A1200?

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I've recently got hold of a PCMCIA-to-CF adapter and a 64MB compact flash card for transferring files to and from my bog standard, single floppy drive A1200 with WB 3.0.

I am an absolute Amiga novice when it comes to things like this as I've only ever used it for running Octamed

I've downloaded and, to the best of my knowledge, installed fat95 and compactflash.device, but nothing's working and I'm at a loss as to what to do next.

All the files seem to be in the right place and CF0: is already mounted, but nothing happens when I insert the adapter & card, and typing "cd cf0:" in a shell window gives "no disk present in device CF0".

So, is there a complete step by step, start to finish guide out there for getting a CF card working with an A1200?

Any help much appreciated as this is slowly driving me insane...

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It's an old adapter so I'm guessing 16bit. Is there a way of checking?

I'm most probably doing something wrong somewhere along the line. A step by step guide would be very helpful indeed.

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That does look tempting, but it's an extra £14 plus postage which might be totally unnecessary if I've all I've done is ballsed up the software installation.

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Thanks for the link, but I'm still none the wiser as to whether I've done everything correcly and put all the files in the right places.

"Install compactflash.device and fat95" is all well and good if you know exactly what you're doing... I however don't  :-P

If anyone could write a quick step by step guide for setting up a CF card just for file transfers (not booting or anything fancy) that'd be much appreciated.

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...which I've followed to the dot and get what I mentioned in the first post in this thread.

Again, I am a total Amiga novice when it comes to things like this as until now I've only ever had to flip the power switch and stick a disk in. It took me a while just to work out how to get a command line up.

So any help would be greatly received.

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Nope, it's a bog standard A1200, no hard drive, with just the five Workbench 3.0 disks and a floppy with CFD and fat95  .lha archives that a kind forum member made for me. No other programs and no way of getting anything else onto it (hence the need for the CF adapter).

I've followed the install instructions and as far as I can tell have all the files in the right places, but get no CF0: icon when plugging in the adapter. I've tried using it with several CF cards.

When I double click the CF0 icon in Devs/DOSDrivers I get the "CF0 already mounted" error.

Apologies if this is all basic stuff that's been covered a thousand times, I did search the net and this forum but, again, "install CFD and fat95" was as far as instructions went.

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No, I didn't touch the original WB disks, they're safely tucked away.

Thanks for the tutorials, but I don't really have a need for a HD/CF drive inside the Amiga. All I'm aiming for is getting the PCMCIA CF adapter working so I can transfer files between PC and Amiga. No booting or anything complicated, just simple file transfer.

As explained, I'm at a loss as to why no CF0: icon shows when I insert the adapter & CF card. All the files seem to be in the right places.

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Yep, card and adapter both inserted fully. It was hard, but I resisted the urge to whip the lube out.

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Nope, can't see any little golden julian clarys lurking in dark crevasses either...

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I've tried Sandisk, Verbatim and Kingston cards of various ages and sizes, nothing.

The adapter is almost certainly a 16-bit job, no gold strip and it's from an ancient Iomega Click disk package, worked fine with that last time I used it.

I might just buy the Amigakit package to rule out the chance that the adapter is for some reason incompatible.