How to install a PCMCIA Compact Flash card on an A1200?

[Anthomatic]

Might be a silly question, but are you sure you are pushing the adapter in all the way? The PCMCIA slot seems way too fragile to me and I tend to get worried that I'm bending pins when inserting a card! Just a thought....

[fannypad]

Yep, card and adapter both inserted fully. It was hard, but I resisted the urge to whip the lube out.

[amigadave]

@Amiduffer,

Your link and url to Amikit have nothing to do with an Amiga.

I think you meant to suggest AmigaKit, which sells items.

AmiKit has a different url and is just for Amiga emulation.

In fact, AmiKit is what I am using right now to run Aweb3.5

[jj]

DOuble check that you have not bent any pins, ive done this a few times and they are a right bugger to put straight

[fannypad]

Nope, can't see any little golden julian clarys lurking in dark crevasses either...

[Zac67]

Most 32 bit cards have a gold 'finish' on the connector end - they won't work.
See also: here

[Amiduffer]

Well, if CFD and FAT95 are properly installed, then your CF card should show up, just like when you put a floppy in the drive.

However, running WB from disks is such a pain. You've got to cram them on the disks in such a way that they load up with the regular WB files. You might have to modify your Startup-sequence.

[Anthomatic]

What make is your CF card? If it's LEXAR, they don't seem to work with an Amiga. I had one once; Workbench and DirOpus couldn't see it and PrepDisk informed me that it was write-protected. :-?

The CF cards I use are Kingston and SanDisk and they work straight out of the box.

[fannypad]

I've tried Sandisk, Verbatim and Kingston cards of various ages and sizes, nothing.

The adapter is almost certainly a 16-bit job, no gold strip and it's from an ancient Iomega Click disk package, worked fine with that last time I used it.

I might just buy the Amigakit package to rule out the chance that the adapter is for some reason incompatible.