PCMCIA<-->CF limit?

[LoadWB]

I just received my PQI 4GB CF card today from Digi4Me (only $84.)  It came formatted FAT32 so I had to reformat it on the XP machine to FAT: I had to use the Disk Manager and I received a warning that the allocation units would be > 32k.  I also had to change the filesystem in the CF0 mountlist from l:CrossDOSFileSystem to l:fat95.  Now it recognizes the CF card as a 4GB drive.  I will be copying stuff over to it to make sure it really works, but right now c:info recognizes it as 4008MB, 561 used, 8209536 free, 0% used.

I could possibly format it with the proper cf0: to FAT as well.  I am going to try that, too, and see how the transfer between PC-Amiga works.

My next step is to put it inside the 1200 and get it rigged as a CF hard drive to replace my current 512MB card.

[LoadWB]

Either I did not RTFM, or I did not see that far into the project.  Somehow (I don't recall doing it manually) the FileSystem in my CF0 mountlist was set to CrossDOSFileSystem, and I was operating under the assumption that I would keep that.  I later switched back to fat95 when CrossDOS wouldn't recognize the large FAT cluster size.

Does fat95 support writing to FAT32, or just reading?  And is it stable for doing so?

[LoadWB]

Just answered this for myself.  Fat95 does support writing FAT32, and it seems pretty stable so far.  Pretty nice.