Using PC Formatted Compact Flash Adapter

[PlymWS]

I've just dug out my A1200 after finding it in my loft.  I have a Toshiba THNCF128MMA PCMCIA adapter with a 128MB compact Flash card.

The card has been formatted by XP and is blank.  When I use Prepcard to try and format the card I get an error "Unable to prepare card: Error while writing changes"

The drive does not appear on the Workbench desktop as PC0:

It's been a while since I used my A1200.  Could someone please refresh my memory as to how I can get a PC card to be recognised by Workbench.  I am a bit rusty but I'm sure it will all come flooding back with a little help

[Chain]

it must be formatted FAT16 (on peecee side), and you will need CFD drivers (on amiga side)

[PlymWS]

It's formatted as a FAT disk on the PC side.  I take it crossdos (or whatever the bundled program is) won't recognise it.

How could I get the files I need over to the Amiga ?  At the moment this is the only way I have of transferring files to the Amiga.

[Chain]

crossdos will not work iirc, you will need fat95 filesystem and compactflash.device driver installed:



both you can find on aminet

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/cfd
http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/fat95

[PlymWS]

Thanks Chain.  As it happens I have found another solution whilst searching.

I will connect the A1200 hard drive to my PC using a 44-40 pin adapter.  I will then, according to the FAQ I read!, be able to access the drive through Amiga Forever as if it were in the A1200.

Then I can copy across all the files I need from my PC which will work out a lot better than using the CF adapter.

Thanks for your help.

[motorollin]

Don't use prepcard. Install cfd and fat95 from Aminet. Then just format the card as FAT on the PC and it will be readable and writeable on the Amiga. This is much easier than mucking about with IDE adapters and Amiga Forever IMO.

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moto

[Chain]

nothing beats pcmcia-cf adapter imo  8-)

[rockape]

Hi,

You must install "FAT95" and "compactflash.device" and "CF0"to enable the PCMCIA Card reader to work.

see http://aminet.net/disk/misc/fat95.readme

"fat95" is a DOS handler to mount and use Win95/98 volumes just as if they were AMIGA volumes."

NOTE

When you install FAT95 there is no progress bar for instalation, it just installs.

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See http://aminet.net/disk/misc/cfd.readme

"Read and write your digital photos, mp3 files etc. directly from CompactFlash cards as used by many mobile devices."

Installation

Copy cfd/devs/compactflash.device to DEVS:

Copy CF0 to Workbench:Devs/DOSDrivers/

If you run OS 3.5+: Copy cfd/def_CF0.info to both sys:prefs/env-archive/sys and env:sys

Mount the drive by double-clicking cfd/devs/CF0.


Works for me with CF Cards from 16 meg to 2 Gig.

Kind Regards, Michael

aka rockape