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Offline tribzTopic starter

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PCMCIA CF Adaptor
« on: November 11, 2008, 08:49:35 PM »
Received a CF adaptor kit from Amigakit today but it doesnt seem to recognise the CF cards I have. I have 3 x 4GB Kingston cards, one used internally via a CF-IDE adaptor and that works fine. I plan to use the other 2 with the PCMCIA adaptor. I've formatted them on my PC to 4GB FAT (not fat32). Is the 4GB fat size to big to be seen properly?

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Re: PCMCIA CF Adaptor
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2008, 09:00:25 PM »
Do you have fat95 installed?

Edit: And do you have compactflash.device installed?
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Re: PCMCIA CF Adaptor
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2008, 09:08:40 PM »
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Do you have fat95 installed?

Edit: And do you have compactflash.device installed?


Yes. Ran the installation disk that it came with. You can also boot from it. It has copied fat95 and compactflash.device and a few other things to hard disk. The 4GB isnt recognised either when using the bootable floppy or when booting from HD. CF0: is mounted but says no disk in device.

Just had a look at the fat95 readme and it says partitions up to 4GB so looks like size isnt the problem.
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Re: PCMCIA CF Adaptor
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2008, 09:30:17 PM »
Do you have any other CF card to test it with? Some people reported problems with certain brands.
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Re: PCMCIA CF Adaptor
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2008, 09:36:29 PM »
You mentioned that your CF cards work internally, so I'm guessing they're formatted with an RDB and partitioned with Amiga filesystems. That won't work with the mountlist installed by the installer disk, which uses fat95 instead of Amiga filesystems. You need to make sure the CF card you are using with the adapter is formatted as FAT, not with an Amiga filesystem.

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Re: PCMCIA CF Adaptor
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2008, 09:54:43 PM »
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Do you have any other CF card to test it with? Some people reported problems with certain brands.


Fraid not, just these 2 x Kingston. I could buy a test one but am a bit loathed to before exploring other options.

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Re: PCMCIA CF Adaptor
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2008, 10:03:02 PM »
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You mentioned that your CF cards work internally, so I'm guessing they're formatted with an RDB and partitioned with Amiga filesystems. That won't work with the mountlist installed by the installer disk, which uses fat95 instead of Amiga filesystems. You need to make sure the CF card you are using with the adapter is formatted as FAT, not with an Amiga filesystem.

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Hi moto, only one been used internally. The other 2 I started using today from new but they've never been formatted in an amiga, only fat formatted in a PC
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Re: PCMCIA CF Adaptor
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2008, 10:42:45 PM »
The older Kingston cards work fine on the Amiga. However recently Kingston changed the specification and the newer cards (with the flower logo) have compatiblity problems with Amigas.  This is why we offer tested CF cards with the kit.
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Re: PCMCIA CF Adaptor
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2008, 10:49:58 PM »
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The older Kingston cards work fine on the Amiga. However recently Kingston changed the specification and the newer cards (with the flower logo) have compatiblity problems with Amigas.  This is why we offer tested CF cards with the kit.


Bugger, I have the ones with the flower. Might give you a bell tomorrow to order one. Thanks everyone else for the replies.
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Re: PCMCIA CF Adaptor
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2008, 01:57:29 PM »
Got a working one today ...

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SanDisk Ultra® II CompactFlash®4GB

Even works when formatted to FAT32
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