CF cards inside Amigas

[PanterHZ]

Sandisk, Sandisk and Sandisk.

Beware of the chinese crap CF cards with false brands on ebay.

I have to agree, sandisk cards are the only ones I have had no problems with.

[PanterHZ]

Need tips on setting up CF cards as drives in some of my Amigas.. Which cards work, formatting etc.  Is there a How To??.. Pic would be cool too.  Can these be used to transfer jpegs, or other files between Macs or PCs?

Thanks in advance.

Rich
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You don't mention what AmigaOS version you are using, but if you want to set up a CF card as boot device on your Amiga and you use a OS lower than 3.5/3.9, you may need to patch HDToolbox first. you can find the patch here: http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/HDToolBoxPatch

As for using a CF card for transferring files to/from Amiga/Mac/PC, it would possibly be best to keep the FAT filesystem like it is on the card. You must then create a mountfile that must be run after you have connected the cf card to the IDE-CF adapter and turned on your Amiga.

On the MAC/PC side you can use a USB cardreader of some sort.

BTW. As you probably understand now, the brand of cf card to use is important, but this mostly applies to using the card as a Amiga system device (by first installing it and then formatting it with FFS or SFS filesystems). For using the card as simply a device for transfering files to/from Amiga/PC/Mac only, this is less important.