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Re: Formatting compact flash card
« Reply #14 from previous page: January 13, 2006, 01:48:04 PM »
Didn't have any problem preparing my 256MB Sandisk CF card via HDToolbox. I formated afterward with FFS and using it in OS 3.9 like a charm!
I also tried to boot with it and runs prefectly.
I can't see why it doesn't runs on you.

P.S. I'm using an IDE to CF adaptor by the way
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Re: Formatting compact flash card
« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2006, 03:17:16 PM »
Limited write cycles? I heard that using an cf card as hard drive could be feasible an better than a hard drive in matters of space inside the desktop case(it's better than a 3,5 hd inside the original case). Has anyone used a cf as main hd without problems? I'll be very interested in replace my hd with this.
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Re: Formatting compact flash card
« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2006, 04:45:03 PM »
@_ThEcRoW

I have tried the CF as boot disk once and it runs very quick and just fine. The only problem I've noticed is when I experienced a hang on the AmigaOS while the disk was working and I had to power off the Amiga, the CF got Disk errors. When I formated the CF I didn't have a problem in the disk. I surely don't recommend of using the CF as your main boot disk. Don't forget about the 1.000.000 read/write cycles!!!
If you use your Amiga too often you'll burn the CF in a few months!
I hope that helps
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Re: Formatting compact flash card
« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2006, 05:24:16 PM »
I have just tried RDPrep but it didn't work. I added DEVICE=SCSI.DEVICE as a tooltype in the icon, but it just says "No SCSI disks found". If I go in to HDToolBox it can see the drive there, but can't partition it :-(

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Re: Formatting compact flash card
« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2006, 05:35:07 PM »
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 I added DEVICE=SCSI.DEVICE as a tooltype in the icon, but it just says "No SCSI disks found".


Device names are case sensitive, try DEVICE=scsi.device instead.
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Re: Formatting compact flash card
« Reply #19 on: January 13, 2006, 05:59:24 PM »
Still doesn't work :-(

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Re: Formatting compact flash card
« Reply #20 on: January 13, 2006, 06:21:06 PM »
It's working now :-)

I still have another IDE flash drive, but it's a 3.5" one. I got a 2.5"-3.5" IDE cable, powered it off the floppy power connector, booted Install 3.0 off of DF1:, and lo and behold HDToolBox could create a partition. Formatted the partition and copied Workbench over and it boots!

Strangely, I then changed back to the 2.5" flash drive and it still works. So it appears to read existing partitions but not be able to create new ones.

Thanks for all the tips guys.

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Re: Formatting compact flash card
« Reply #21 on: January 14, 2006, 11:21:52 AM »
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mfilos wrote:
Didn't have any problem preparing my 256MB Sandisk CF card via HDToolbox. I formated afterward with FFS and using it in OS 3.9 like a charm!
I also tried to boot with it and runs prefectly.
I can't see why it doesn't runs on you.

P.S. I'm using an IDE to CF adaptor by the way


I did the same thing on a 3.0 A1200; 512MB Sandisk works like a charm as lone system harddisk.  Maybe there's a problem with the ide-cf adaptor.  Mine has a jumper for master/slave; make sure it's set for master.  Mine also is a 3.5" adaptor, so I ran power of a splitter from the floppy power connector.
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Re: Formatting compact flash card
« Reply #22 on: January 14, 2006, 11:47:06 AM »
@motorollin:

Try running HDToolBox from a shell, specifying the device as the only argument - "HDToolBox scsi.device". This will work with all versions HDToolBox.


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