Weird problem with Amigakit's PCMCIA Software

[Everblue]

I have recently purchased a PCMCIA=>CF solution for my A1200 from Amiga kit. I have tested it with a 512MB CF card, and it worked great. It even works if I switch on the Amiga with this CF adapter inserted in the converter.

Subsequently, I purchased an 8GB CF card and at first it wouldn't work at all. I replaced the "compactflash.device" on the HDD with a more recent version I found on Aminet. This worked great. Now when I insert the 8GB CF Card, its icon appears around 8 seconds later on Workbench.

Now there is one remaining problem - when I switch on the A1200 with the 8GB CF card inserted, the CF's icon does not appear on Workbench. I have to remove/re-insert the CF for it to appear. This is strange because I have no such problem with the 512MB CF card.

Amigakit have suggested to do a "diskchange CF0:" command in CLI, but it did nothing

Any help is appreciated!!!


Just in case, here is my start-up sequence file:

; Added by ADAPCMCFL-Installer
FailAT 11
C:CardPatch
run >NIL: C:CardReset TICKS 50

; $VER: Startup-Sequence_HardDrive 40.2 (25.2.93)
; Startup-Sequence for hard drive systems

C:SetPatch QUIET

C:Version >NIL:
C:AddBuffers >NIL: DF0: 15
FailAt 21

C:MakeDir RAM:T RAM:Clipboards RAM:ENV RAM:ENV/Sys
C:Copy >NIL: ENVARC: RAM:ENV ALL NOREQ

Resident >NIL: C:Assign PURE
Resident >NIL: C:Execute PURE

Assign >NIL: ENV: RAM:ENV
Assign >NIL: T: RAM:T
Assign >NIL: CLIPS: RAM:Clipboards
Assign >NIL: REXX: S:
Assign >NIL: PRINTERS: DEVS:Printers
Assign >NIL: KEYMAPS: DEVS:Keymaps
Assign >NIL: LOCALE: SYS:Locale
Assign >NIL: LIBS: SYS:Classes ADD
Assign >NIL: HELP: LOCALE:Help DEFER

BindDrivers
C:Mount >NIL: DEVS:DOSDrivers/~(#?.info)

IF EXISTS DEVS:Monitors
  IF EXISTS DEVS:Monitors/VGAOnly
    DEVS:Monitors/VGAOnly
  EndIF

  C:List >NIL: DEVS:Monitors/~(#?.info|VGAOnly) TO T:M LFORMAT "DEVS:Monitors/%s"
  Execute T:M
  C:Delete >NIL: T:M
EndIF

SetEnv Language "english"
SetEnv Workbench $Workbench
SetEnv Kickstart $Kickstart
UnSet Workbench
UnSet Kickstart

C:AddDataTypes REFRESH QUIET
C:IPrefs
C:ConClip

Path >NIL: RAM: C: SYS:Utilities SYS:Rexxc SYS:System S: SYS:Prefs SYS:WBStartup SYS:Tools SYS:Tools/Commodities

IF EXISTS S:User-Startup
  Execute S:User-Startup
EndIF

Resident Execute REMOVE
Resident Assign REMOVE

C:LoadWB
EndCLI >NIL:

[Ruud]

Could it be due to the card being over 4GB?  Maybe the Amiga can't see it until after Workbench has fully loaded including any patches for devices over 4GB.

[Everblue]

Dunno, is there a command to 'reset' pcmcia port, once Workbench has loaded?

[Ruud]

Everblue wrote:
Dunno, is there a command to 'reset' pcmcia port, once Workbench has loaded?

Can't think of a command off hand.  How about moving the CF0 file out of devs:dosdrivers to some where else and mount it at the end of your user-startup.  Maybe mounting it later will make a difference.  If that doesn't work you could mount it manually after workbench has loaded. Move CF0 out of Devs:dosdrivers to new location then leave the icon out on the desktop and double click it once wb has loaded for example.

[motorollin]

Everblue wrote:
Dunno, is there a command to 'reset' pcmcia port, once Workbench has loaded?

http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/CardReset

--
moto

[amigagr]

Everblue wrote:

; Added by ADAPCMCFL-Installer
FailAT 11
C:CardPatch
run >NIL: C:CardReset TICKS 50

; $VER: Startup-Sequence_HardDrive 40.2 (25.2.93)

you already running the card reset stuff.
try to move the cf0 driver to wbstartup, it may help if the problem
has something to do with the 4gb limit.

[Ruud]

motorollin wrote:

Everblue wrote:
Dunno, is there a command to 'reset' pcmcia port, once Workbench has loaded?

http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/CardReset

--
moto

CardReset is already included in the Amigakit package and has been added to Everblue's startup-sequence.  Issuing the command again after wb has loaded might work though.

[delshay]

right click on the CF0 ICON in DEVS,see if you have this

DEVICE=compactflash.device
UNIT=0
ACTIVATE=1

[darksun9210]

for the 8-10 seconds till it appears, i may have a similar problem with a kingston datatraveler 8Gb usb stick
its formatted to fat32, and the miggy has fat95 installed.
i plug the USB stick into the subway card on the A1200 (25Mhz 040)m and the machine goes into dead slow mode, mouse moves jerkily, window redraws, you can see the lines being drawn onto the screen, and the activity light on the usb drive goes nuts... for about 8-10 seconds.

i had a shell window open, and during this time i typed "info" to see if the drive was even mounted yet.
it was, and was listed as "validating"?

once this is complete, everything is fine.

--

sorry i have no idea why it's not showing up on reboot

[Everblue]

I edited so it looks exaactly like that but made no difference

[Everblue]

I did that but the problem remaains

amije wrote:

Everblue wrote:

; Added by ADAPCMCFL-Installer
FailAT 11
C:CardPatch
run >NIL: C:CardReset TICKS 50

; $VER: Startup-Sequence_HardDrive 40.2 (25.2.93)

you already running the card reset stuff.
try to move the cf0 driver to wbstartup, it may help if the problem
has something to do with the 4gb limit.

[Everblue]

Ruud wrote:

Everblue wrote:
Dunno, is there a command to 'reset' pcmcia port, once Workbench has loaded?

Can't think of a command off hand.  How about moving the CF0 file out of devs:dosdrivers to some where else and mount it at the end of your user-startup.  Maybe mounting it later will make a difference.  If that doesn't work you could mount it manually after workbench has loaded. Move CF0 out of Devs:dosdrivers to new location then leave the icon out on the desktop and double click it once wb has loaded for example.

Just tried didntwork I still have to eject/re-insert the CF.

 :-?

[countzero]

could you even format the CF with FAT16 as 8 gb ? from the fat95 read me ...

On massive public demand, fat95 is now trying to support FAT32, too ;-)

I suggest just forget about the 8 gb CF and get a 4 gb one with FAT16 format.

[delshay]

it looks like the software reset does not work with 8GB but it's hard to tell.

my reset is done in hardware,so i have no problems regardless of what OS or what card is inserted,so i suggest get your motherboard modifyed to fix the problem.

i recommend all A1200 users have this done in hardware.

*** ALL MODIFICATION AT YOUR OWN RISK ***

NOTE: there are two type's of hardware fix for the PCMCIA.