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4gb CF no longer boots up on a1200
« on: December 27, 2011, 03:22:27 PM »
Hey ppl i need your help again,

I removed my CF 4gb card out of its ide connector in order to copy some files via pcmcia adaptor to my other 1200 - this didn't work, presumably because 4gb is too large a CF to be used with pcmcia.

So i re-install my 4gb CF back into the ide connector of my 1200 but it no longer boots upinto WB. Instead the screen flickers and then goes black.

Hmmm, i load up winuae v 2.3.3 on my pc and load wb via system.hdf as a hardfile, I insert the 4gb cf into the pc cf adaptor... I am wondering how to access my 4gb cf in winuae as i think i may need to edit the setting to make it "bootable" again. How do i do this and how do i test that my 4gb CF is working fine in winuae, because only then will i feel happy re-installing it in my 1200 ide slot.

I really don't want to have to wipe my 4gb cf as i will lose 3 months worth of saved games :confused:

Any help would be appreciated :)
 

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Re: 4gb CF no longer boots up on a1200
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2011, 03:50:20 PM »
hi critanime, can you expand on what you mean.

So far i am in winuae 2.3.3 and i load wb via system hdf ( if try to boot from the cf card in winuae i get a prompt saying "DH0: not recognised" or something like that.)

Can you give me a step by step account of fixing the rdb that you mention.

I definitely feel that removing my CF card from my 1200 and inserting into pcmcia has been a poor move on my part :confused:

Thomas where are you........?! Can anybody else help?!
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Re: 4gb CF no longer boots up on a1200
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2011, 06:10:24 PM »
hi critanime,

i'm having real problems getting the cf card mounted as a hard-drive in winuae as every time i click on it it says its not a recognised file format (no doubt because its an amiga file system) so i wonder if i should be trying to access the cf via wb? But then i need to add the cf card as a hard-drive to do this ? arghhh! How do i get out of that loop? :roflmao:

Whenever i mount my cf card as a hard-drive it says under it device name "n/a" and under volume "n/a"

hmmm:confused:
 

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Re: 4gb CF no longer boots up on a1200
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2011, 06:19:17 PM »
ahh thomas, can you help me get my cf card recognised in winuae wb?

Do i need to use system hdf to access the cf and if so why does it not show up in wb?,

 If not then how do i get the cf to boot up in winuae??
 

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Re: 4gb CF no longer boots up on a1200
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2011, 06:41:56 PM »
i thought winuae version 2.3.3 did not need the "disablehardrivesafetycheck" thing...

hmmm :confused:
 

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Re: 4gb CF no longer boots up on a1200
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2011, 08:20:30 PM »
Quote from: Thomas;673138
Can you describe this a little bit more detailed (with the exact error message).

Well its not loading my cf card from the purple wb prompt now?!, but it does recognise it as device n/a, volume n/a, Path: multi Flash reader 1... R/W yes, Block size 512, Size 1927...

Should i try changing it from a uae device to a ide0 device, save that and then reload in my 1200 ide port?
 

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Re: 4gb CF no longer boots up on a1200
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2011, 09:31:35 PM »
I am already running in winuae as administrator.

I can mount the hard-drive and see it with the values (i already provided) but i cannot seem to get it to boot from the purple wb prompt in winuae.
 

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Re: 4gb CF no longer boots up on a1200
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2011, 11:41:28 PM »
It says flash 1.9gb UNK RW, when i select it from the drop down menu. Is this because it is recognised as being in 2 partitions rather than one 4gb partition?

(sorry thomas i am having probs with windows disk management - in that its not working (or constantly loading drives)

As this doesn't look like a straight forward fix, do you think i should just return the drive to the vendor for them to examine as it is only 3 months old ?

I can't understand how using the cf card with a pcmcia adaptor into a pcmcia port has since ended its bootable capability as an ide cf hard drive.:confused:
 

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Re: 4gb CF no longer boots up on a1200
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2011, 11:42:00 AM »
Well I kept the 1200 switched off before I inserted it so maybe it changed fat 95, hmm.

Thanks for your help thomas but I think I better return this to the vendor, I have explained what has happened and they said they will take a look.

Incidentally attaching the cf card back to the 1200 ide port seems to upset the 1200 boot sepuence with the screen flickering and then going black, back to purple wb prompt without the cf attached.