Compact Flash IDE howto?

[murple]

I can turn up a zillion forum posts of varying usefulness on Google... is there a "how to" document somewhere about how to install on a CF IDE disk?

Right now the HD setup tool says I have no disk, trying a variety of CF cards on the adapter.

[murple]

Started working with no obvious reasy why or why it didn't before. That said, a link to any FAQs/howtos on the topic might be helpful for myself and others. That or a hint as to what search terms to use on the amiga.org search... all the ones I tried turned up too much irrelevant stuff.

[murple]

Actually all I did to make it work was leave the room for a few minutes. The next time I powered on, it detected fine, I was able to install the OS, and it seems to be working great now.

I'm a Linux user and in that environment I don't think it matters how a CF card reports itself, it gets treated as a hard drive... so this bit you're referring to is news to me. I don't think its an issue for me though, I suspect it not working initially was just a fluke. Maybe the cable was bent at a bad angle, who knows.

FWIW I'm using a Kensington 4GB 133X CF card and a Creative I/O Ultra IDE to CF adapter, in case somebody is keeping a list of known working hardware.

[murple]

Bamiga2002 wrote:
What OS version do you have? 3.1 and below AFAIK require patching of HDToolBox.

I'm using 3.1 and the HDToolBox that comes with the original OS disks worked just fine without any patching.