8GB SanDisk card not mounting in A500?

[Thomas]

If I boot to Workbench I can see it in HDToolbox, but I still can't mount it or format it or do anything else with it.

If HDToolbox sees it then all else is a software problem.

Formatted the CF with the latest version of PFS

PFS-TD64, PFS-DS or PFS-AIO?



Is the CF card the only HDD in the A500? And in the A2000 was it the only HDD?

If there was another HDD in the A2000 with PFS, did you perhaps forget to store PFS on the new CF card?

Another thought, if you run HDToolbox on the A500, install drive, define new, read configuration, does it show exactly the same values as when you did the same on the A2000?

Did you successfully use CF cards >4GB before?

[Thomas]

In the A500 I've tried it by itself, in conjunction with another CF that has 3.9 on it, in conjunction with another CF that has 3.1 on it, and with a random XD card that I had laying around.

What about PFS? Are all these cards formatted with PFS? All with PFS-AIO?

Do you always use the same slots of the SCSI reader, i.e. do you always use the same SCSI IDs? Can it be that the SCSI ID or LUN of the Sandisk is higher than all the other cards? And were the other cards used in conjunction with another card before? What I want to say is, did you clear the "last LUN" and "last ID" flags on the other cards? If not, drives with higher IDs or LUNs won't be mounted.

[Thomas]

AAAH!  I'd been putting in the wrong number on that screen!  Operator error!  D'oh!  :angry:

Which number did you enter? Normally it should not matter which identifier you enter exactly, as long as you use the same one for both the file system and the partition and as long as the number does not conflict with another file system.

Some file systems change their behaviour depending on the identifier. For example PFS-AIO first checks for usability of Direct-SCSI if you enter the number for PFS-DS rather than that of PFS-TD64. Other than that it makes no difference.

Any chance of getting this new filesys file and latest version of Check4GB uploaded to Aminet to replace the old version that's currently on there?

I am currently working on a new program called HDDReport to replace Check4GB. It will print much more information about harddrives and partitions in addition to just "ok" or "***".

So the answer to your question is no, I won't upload a new version of Check4GB to Aminet, I will rather replace it with something much better (IMHO).