A1200 CF hard drive

[Miloo]

I've installed a 4gb CF card on the internal ide port on my A1200 but when I boot into workbench 3.1 and select hdtools no hard drive is detected to partition.

Any ideas as to why?

[NovaCoder]

Have you got a CF reader on your PC?  I find it easier to setup CF's using WINUAE.

One thing you could try is a (slow) format using your PC.

What make is your CF, some are not compatible.

Are you using an interface card or have you got the adapter plugged straight into the port?

[Miloo]

I've got a cf to 44 pin adaptor

[Sandman]

Have you checked hdtool.info to make sure that the device is set right?  I usual prep my CF with Winuae and still find myself forgeting to correct this when I move it to a real migy, always forget and leave it set to uaehf.scsi or whatever.  

Also, I've had all kinds of grief with 3.1 when using partitions near 4gb.

-T-

[Miloo]

I found the problem - I had a CF adaptor with the female plug (to connect directly to the motherboard) but had a 44 pin ribbon and a set of 44 pins (to connect female to female).
The pins are on a different orientation so I got a CF adaptor with pins and it works great now.

[Dwyloc]

@Miloo

Good to here you got it working I setup a 4GB CF card in an A1200 about a year ago and it works very nicely.

It a lot faster and quieter than the 80MB HD that my old A1200 desktop originally has as well as just a bit bigger ;-)

[Miloo]

@Dwyloc

Yes I'm very impressed of the speed and the total price.

I spent about £20 on all the parts.

[Damion]

Miloo wrote:
@Dwyloc

Yes I'm very impressed of the speed and the total price.

I spent about £20 on all the parts.

Now ditch FFS and put PFS3 on that baby, and you will be even more impressed... it's pretty neat to watch 3.9 boot in a matter of a few seconds :-)

[Dwyloc]

In the past I used PFS2 but today I use SFS my self with works very well under both OS3.X and OS4.X.

[klx300r]

glad you got it working Miloo...nothign like fast SILENT retro computing in 2009 :-D