CF Drive problems

[Sutty100]

I just got a CF card tonight for the A1200. I fitted it and had an hour and a half of enjoyment before an error message said bad secter, I restarted and now am stuck at the purple boot disk screen with the drive no longer being detected!

Any advice? have tried removing and reinserting to no luck! Very annoying as I thought it was working!!

[Sutty100]

Just to add I did have a 2.5 inch hard disk which was working fine. Also when I turn on the Amiga the hard disk activity light flashes briefly.

[Sutty100]

You don't give us much details mate...
- How do you use your CF card? Via PCMCIA adapter or via CF 2 IDE adapter?
- How did you prepared your CF for Workbench usage?
- What filesystems are you using?
- What are the Max Transfer/Mask/Blocksize you're using?
- What brand and what capacity is your CF card?
- What partitions have you declared and at what size?

Sorry about that! I am using a CF 2 IDE adapter.

The rest I am not very sure as it came off E-bay supposedly ready to go! I knows it 4GB and by transcend. It has System/Games1/Games2 partitions. Sorry I cant supply much more info, didnt get much  more chance to explore it all before it packed in :-(

[Sutty100]

After much arseing about removing it taking it apart reassembling and trying an alternate IDE cable I finally got it working! So either a bad IDE cable or bad connection I think. Fingers crossed it keeps going for abit longer this time!

Just ordered a CF card reader & spare CF card from amazon so hopefully will then be able to connect to pc do abit more advanced stuff and take a backup!