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PCMCIA C/F card 'not working' with Skick
« on: January 18, 2012, 11:34:02 PM »
Hi there, sorry if this has been asked zillions of times already!

I am Skicking to the workbench okay by choosing kickstart 3.0 ROM to try & access the 4GB C/F card in the slot.

However, I'm still trying to get the hang of my A1200 and I'm not sure how to get the C/F card to appear on the desktop when I plug it in, when using Skick

It shows up straight away when I boot to WB 3.1 with accelerator card removed.

Any help/suggestions will be appreciated. Any questions re: above....please ask away:)

Cheers Chris
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Re: PCMCIA C/F card 'not working' with Skick
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2012, 12:38:55 PM »
"use kickstart 3.0 and everything will work ok"

That's the issue I'm having...I am using kickstart 3.0 but the pcmcia c/f card
doesn't show up on the desktop.

Just need a little helping hand:)
Amiga 1200 M-tec Viper 1230 68030, 8MB @ 42Mhz & 4GB C/F HD
Atari 520 STe 4MB RAM & 4.2GB HD
Citizen Swift 240c Colour Dot Matrix
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Sinclair ZX81 with Windows Vista 64 bit installed (oooh, why does it take so long to boot up?:))
 

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Re: PCMCIA C/F card 'not working' with Skick
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2012, 08:45:54 PM »
@Dougal.....I thought it was you! I shall keep my eye out for 128mb cards, or more than likely I will 'jump' down to 4MB on the card and carry on using WB3.1.

I don't intend on doing much memory intensive stuff on my little monster and if I do need the full 8MB, well, it's not exactly a huge job to do.

Thanks for your help guys anyway.:)
Amiga 1200 M-tec Viper 1230 68030, 8MB @ 42Mhz & 4GB C/F HD
Atari 520 STe 4MB RAM & 4.2GB HD
Citizen Swift 240c Colour Dot Matrix
Epson LQ100+ Dot Matrix
Sinclair ZX81 with Windows Vista 64 bit installed (oooh, why does it take so long to boot up?:))
 

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Re: PCMCIA C/F card 'not working' with Skick
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2012, 11:53:45 PM »
Quote from: actung_bab;676610
This tread is daft this is hardware issue not wb bug i use 3.1 with compact flash card
Just get the mod done on your mb its not diffcult or like they say take card in and out again after boot , why make life diffcult by dual booting

Not quite sure if you meant the whole thread is daft, or just the replies I've received?

Can you explain what the motherboard mod is to me? I tried taking the card out & putting it back in, but that didn't work for me either. I assume my c/f card is not compatible, and I may be buying a different one soon.

For now though, I have jumpered the accelerator down to 4MB and all is well, as far as I'm concerned.

I've only very recently bought an A1200 and an M-Tech Viper T1230 off a fellow ebayer/Amiga.org user and I am slowly, but surely, finding my way round the Amiga's 'idiosyncrasies' (as in I've been spoilt by the PC & Atari ST way of doing things, like putting a disk in the drive & just click on the Install button/icon and everything works as it should).

I had an A500 & an A1200 years & years ago and never got to learn how they 'worked'. All I was interested in at the time was playing games on them and used an ST back in those days for serious stuff.
Amiga 1200 M-tec Viper 1230 68030, 8MB @ 42Mhz & 4GB C/F HD
Atari 520 STe 4MB RAM & 4.2GB HD
Citizen Swift 240c Colour Dot Matrix
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Sinclair ZX81 with Windows Vista 64 bit installed (oooh, why does it take so long to boot up?:))
 

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Re: PCMCIA C/F card 'not working' with Skick
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2012, 12:19:27 AM »
I've got a 4GB c/f card internal fitted and I'm also using a 4GB c/f card in the PCMCIA slot.

The M-tech card has 8MB of RAM fitted.
Amiga 1200 M-tec Viper 1230 68030, 8MB @ 42Mhz & 4GB C/F HD
Atari 520 STe 4MB RAM & 4.2GB HD
Citizen Swift 240c Colour Dot Matrix
Epson LQ100+ Dot Matrix
Sinclair ZX81 with Windows Vista 64 bit installed (oooh, why does it take so long to boot up?:))