About to install a CF hard drive, what should I watch out for?

[blanning]

I'm about to install a 2gb CF card with one of those ide adapters into my a600.  The plan is to upgrade the machine to 3.1 roms, then put the CF card into a USB CF card reader on my XP box, then use WinUAE to format and install 3.1 on the drive.  Is there anything I should watch out for?  Any tricks that would be useful to know up front?  thanks.

brian

[darksun9210]

hmmm, i'm not sure how the card reader interfaces the CF card to the PC.
just to be sure, (i did pretty much exactly what you're planning to do) i had the CF card in an IDE adapter, attached to an IDE to USB adapter to connect to the PC, so it definately shows up as a hard disk type device...

you'll probably be fine, but thats just what i did and it worked out ok for my A600 :-)

[amigagr]

why don't you just install it direct on the amiga with hdtoolbox?

[blanning]

amije wrote:
why don't you just install it direct on the amiga with hdtoolbox?

I don't have 3.1 floppies.  And it would be a bigger pain to make them than to just stick the CF card into my xp machine.

brian

[DoogUK]

You should consider installing classicwb for 68k on it.

[Linde]

I arranged my current setup on a CF card using WinUAE on the PC with a USB card reader. I had some problems with setting things at first, but I don't remember them exctly... Just remember that you have to press ENTER after you've filled in a value in HDToolbox to actually make the change . Check out eab.abime.net, I think they have some decent tutorials and tips on this stuff.

And now I have a WinUAE setup so I can use the "same" install in WinUAE and install all the programs I need quickly from windows folders. Transferring all the stuff from a PC to the Amiga can be pretty boring before you've set up some decent means of communication.

[NovaCoder]

blanning wrote:
I'm about to install a 2gb CF card with one of those ide adapters into my a600.  The plan is to upgrade the machine to 3.1 roms, then put the CF card into a USB CF card reader on my XP box, then use WinUAE to format and install 3.1 on the drive.  Is there anything I should watch out for?  Any tricks that would be useful to know up front?  thanks.

brian

This is a good plan, that is how I installed OS 3.9 on my CF (my Amiga 1200 has no CDROM drive).

It should work without issues, if you do have trouble try a slow format of the CF using the XP machine.

[blanning]

Thanks to everyone.  I was hoping to get my rom in the mail today, but no luck.  Now I'm hoping to get it tomorrow so I have the weekend.

brian