Need help installing CF HDD in a1200!!!!

[bbond007]

Every time I have I have configured a CF card I have used the actual amiga to partition & format the CF card and then used UAE to install the OS.

I could see doing it this way would be a problem if you don't have the worbench "install" floppy...

[bbond007]

thanks for the reply,

Yeah i had already installed Workbench 3.1 on the drive and it all works fine in Winuae. It boots to DH0 and shows my other 2 formatted partitions.

When i took the CF card out containing this data and put back into my a1200 it is still doing the same the now (without the OS installed)

The HDD is not recognised by HDToolBox when booting into Workbench using my floppy disk.

If i mount the card in Winuae it will work perfect as a Hard disk file.

Well, maybe I'm not understanding the issue 100% correctly, but it sounds a lot like you have never been able to get the CF card recognized on the 1200. If you boot the 3.1 install and go into HDtoolbox (and it is set in  the tooltype to use scsi.device) and don't see the drive or your partitions keep disappearing, then it may be as simple as using a different brand of CF card. Not are all 100% backwards compatible with IDE.

[bbond007]

I agree it might sound confusing but let me try summarise.

The CF card with 3 partitions works fine in Winuae.
The same CF card is not recognised in HDToolsBox in the real amiga 1200.

HDtoolbox cannot see anything. it is 100% blank and all options ghosted out.

I know the card works because it was working fine in my amiga before i deleted the bootable partition by mistake.

Hence the reason i am now trying to do a clean install.

Thanks

Well, if HDToolbox can not see the card at all the only thing I can suggest is to make sure tooltype for HDToolBox for SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=scsi.device

other than that, the only thing I can think is something hardware wise must have failed...

hopefully someone has some some better ideas