So ordered a compact flash card and adapter from amigakit. Anything in particular to be aware of when setting this up ?
I will be getting an accelerator card later on. I've heard some people say that you are best off formatting and setting up your hard drive with all expansions connected properly or you may get system crashes.
Anything to that or hogwash ?
Well I'm not saying people haven't had problems but I hook my CF card to my PC and use WinUAE to prep, partition and install 3.9. When that's on I transfer it to my real Amiga and install other drivers (CybergraphX etc) as required. Have done that method on 600s, 1200s and 4000s (all accelerated, some with PPC) and have never had any trouble at all.
The only gotcha I experienced was to watch what the MaxTransfer rate is set to when you prep the drive. This thread describes what you should set it to and why -
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=48013 You'll realise quite quickly if you get it wrong as you'll see checksum errors galore.
