CF ide for Amiga1200 problem, Please help

[bakoulis]

I have test the cf to ide adapter (both 2.5 & 3.5 versions)
to my a1200 with 3 differend cf cards (16mb hitachi, 256mb sandisk, 2gb ultra II sandisk!) but hdtoolbox didn't found drive for partitioning. I have try all possible combinations,
slave,master, os3.9, os3.1, with hd or without, with 2.5 and with 3.5 adaptor but nothing. Now I have my amiga opened on my desk and many parts on my bed, so please make something quick. :cry:
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[orange]

have you tried hdinsttools? sometimes it gives better results..

[lurkist]

How are you powering it?  I don't think it will take its power from the IDE port, you need for instance a Y-adaptor from the disk drive socket.

[bakoulis]

the 3.5 adapter  takes power from my external PC modified PSU that I use to power my a1200 040/40mhz. the 2.5 adapter powered from the ide port as a regullar 2.5 HD. none works. Have any of you a working cf ide system? any idea?

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[bakoulis]

orange wrote:
have you tried hdinsttools? sometimes it gives better results..

I have try both....nothing. And the better is the red led of cf to ide controller is blinking when I boot. And blinking again when the hdtoolbox scan for devices. It seem to be incompatible with cards, but with 3 cards??? (16mb hitachi, 256mb sandisk, 2.0gb ultra II sandisk)
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[CLS2086]

Hi,
maybe you have a defective adaptor, do you have Kick3.1 ?
Have you tried it on PC before ?

[Gojirax]

I'm curious to see where this goes as well since I'm looking to put a CD IDE on my A1200 and A4000.

[PG]

It has been done, no problem.
All: use a Lexar card, in my opinion thats the best card to use.
Master-Slave chain could be a problem with other cards.

[bakoulis]

I have 3.1 kick. My adaptor isn't defect because I tryed 2 adapters (2.5 & 3.5). The 3 cards works with pc via pcmcia adaptor and to my hp200lx palmtop. O.K. the lexar is the best, but nowhere read before to not use any other cards. Probably the firm isn't problem. :-(
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[PG]

Most other cards will work fine if you have a Elbox fast ata.
If you use a IDE-fix adapter - forget about using any CF cards...
Lexar cards work fine in a master - slave setup with the A1200 built in IDE interface.

[PG]

Most other cards will work fine if you have a Elbox fast ata.
If you use a IDE-fix adapter - forget about using any CF cards...
Lexar cards work fine in a master - slave setup with the A1200 built in IDE interface.

[lurkist]

Mine is on an EIDE 99, Sandisk 512MB card, CD-RW 32X.  Didn't even need to check which was master/slave, it just happened to work straight off.  I've tested with other sizes of Sandisk card and with Kodaks, all worked.

[Gojirax]

I went to Lexar's website and cannot seem to find a link to an internal IDE CF reader product...

[Gojirax]

What about something like this?

http://www.acscontrol.com/Index_ACS.asp?Page=/Pages/Products/CompactFlash/IDE_To_CF_Adapter.htm

[Jabaruk1]

I have put together and sold 11 of these CF to IDE, I had same problem here with some CF cards in the end i used a program called RDprep (http://it.aminet.net/disk/misc/rdp391.lha) for some cards and an older unknown HD setup program (will find name when have time),these cards would not be seen by HDTools but older software found them odd i know ,also the current setup needs no power it all comes from the 1200 built in IDE.