Format Compact Flash with winuae

[bbond007]

Hey Amiten,
 
Yes i have heard a few quotes for using install WB 3.1 adf, I have looked everywhere for WB 3.1 install adf online, now considering i owned my own copy of it before my parents threw it away :cry: i should have no qualms about using it on winuae! But i know we shouldn't really be discussing this on amiga.org !

If you want to make sure you are a good legit Amiga citizen you could buy Amiga Forever which comes with all of the WB ADFs

[bbond007]

Hi, i am looking to change my max transder rate to 0x1FE00 to ensure the CF card works appropriately. So i am in Winuae - whenever i try to change this in the partition/advance options menu i change "Max transfer box" to 0x1FE00 and then click ok but it never seems to save and defaults to its original setting...grrr...how do i do this?
 
The CF card has been freshly formatted and once i've done this i aim to reinstall wb.
 
Can someone please advise?

after you set the max transfer press [ENTER] to make it stick...

put in 1fe00[ENTER]

[bbond007]

You shouldn't use device names as volume names and you should avoid duplicate names. This just confuses AmigaDOS. Call it Workbench or System or CFDisk or something like that.

What is wrong with device name being the same as the volume name? I have one (formatted with PFS) that is both BACKUP and I have never had a problem with it. I'm not arguing that it is OK, I'm just wondering why

[bbond007]

Hi bbond007, thanks for your help.
 
why 1fe00 rather than 0x1fe00?
 
Is it ok to use lower case aswell?

You are right, it should be 0x1fe00, I just delete up to the 0x, so I forgot about that part.

Lower case is fine, but you do need the 0x and to press [ENTER]

My fast ATA controller splits my 60GB drive into 15 4M drives, so I must have set that mask a million times now

[bbond007]

I cleared and formatted my cf to do this but out of interest would have it been possible to change the max transfer rate with wb and files still on the cf?

Yes, you can change it after the fact and it won't harm the drives contents. The files that you copied to the drive while the maxtransfer was set incorrectly may be corrupt, so it might be a good idea to format anyway.

[bbond007]

Your device name wasBACKUP?

I thought device names were always something like DH0, IDH0, DF0, DF1, etc...

I don't know that it's hideous to name your volume DH0, but I would think it could lead to problems/confusion and just isn't a good practice...

desiv

Well, I already had DH0 DH1 DH2 DH3 MAC1 and MAC2 and VIDEO1 so I was starting to think, humm. Do I already have a a DH3? So I was like, BACKUP problem solved.

I also did not want the device names to conflict with other drives I may attach...

I have a script that runs and compresses my "Work" and "System" to the drive BACKUP... so far it works for that. it is the only one I have named the same.