A little advice on IDE compactflash formatting

[TheGoose]

I got some Scandisk CFs and they are recognized but not to the full capacity. I'm using an A1200 with 3.1 install floppy, using HDtoolBox.

The CF I hope to put back in my A1000 after formatting. The one I'm dealing with now is a 256MB CF that only is seen as 163MB.

I looked for another post but could not find it.

Thanks for any pointers

[TheGoose]

Ah sweet success. I forgot something, not the Amiga wiz I use to be. I needed to goto HDToolBox, and as the CF is listed as 'Uknown' click 'Change Drive Type' and then hit the 'Read Configuration' button. Duh.

Ok, then it read all the bits the right way, 'Save Changes' and then you are off to partition it. Although, in my case I had to make the 3.1 Install disk write-able, to save the changes, and didn't like doing that. But Read Configuration worked great.

Other notes, I got the CF understood on my ADIDE board too. There, I needed to boot useing the ADIDE software disk, and from shell run the 'ideconfig' command 1st! It understood everything. Then move onto the 'ICD Formatter' program. Disappoint though, I'm still wondering if ADIDE interface understands both master / slave channels ? Anyone know about that?

REMINDER PIC:

[TheGoose]

About formatting, I just chose the 'quick format' check box option and I was done.

These big capacity drives; I had to move on too, and trust the 'quick format' option.

BTW, my little CF drive has been working great.


 :-)