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Offline Thomas

Re: Formatting a CF card with FAT95
« on: September 16, 2008, 08:22:27 PM »

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Ok, after zero-filling the CF card


If you format the CF card like a floppy disk, then Fat95 needs the exact geometry to be specified in its DosDriver (CF0 in your case), otherwise it will not detect the file system.

Fat95's automatic geometry recognistion does only works if the disk is partitioned (i.e. contains an MBR created by FDisk or the like).

I am not sure if you can partition a CF card with Windows' disk management. You probably have to fire up Linux and run its FDisk.

Whatever you do, you should first read Fat95's documentation. There is a lot of information in it. Especially note the section about the DosType and partition recognition.

Bye,
Thomas

Offline Thomas

Re: Formatting a CF card with FAT95
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2008, 08:01:45 AM »

Reduce MaxTransfer for all partitions to 0xfe00.

Bye,
Thomas