Back to some CF problems ...

[MozzerFan]

Actually I can not even transfer a single file from my PC to the CF card. I tried to transfer 'Installer' into Sys:C. However when I reboot before Workbench comes up I get an error ... something about bad header section! After that I can not transfer anything else!
 
I am lost! ... After installing Workbench from A500+ WinUAE seems ok, but after trying to move files this happens

 
Have you used Fastprep or HDToolbox.
 
If you used Fastprep, try to format the Card to Fat32 on your pc and try to partition it with HDToolbox under Winuae. Try to format from the shell (see my previous post).
 
Use a maxtransfer size of 'FE00' just to be sure.

[sim085]

Have you used Fastprep or HDToolbox.

I have used FastPrep to create the partitions. I then installed workbench 3.1 - always from real A500+.

If you used Fastprep, try to format the Card to Fat32 on your pc and try to partition it with HDToolbox under Winuae. Try to format from the shell (see my previous post).

My XP does not want to know anything about the CF card anymore. Anything I try it does not want to format the CF card. However from A500 everything works great!

Use a maxtransfer size of 'FE00' just to be sure.

Can I re-partition from A500+ and then I load CF card from WinUAE and change the MaxTransfer to 0x1FE00? - btw ... it is 1fe00 or fe00? I am asking just to confirm.

[MozzerFan]

Can I re-partition from A500+ and then I load CF card from WinUAE and change the MaxTransfer to 0x1FE00? - btw ... it is 1fe00 or fe00? I am asking just to confirm.

 
Yes that is possible.
 
I'm using '1FE00' myself, but to be absolutely on the safe side you can also use 'FE00' .

[MozzerFan]

BTW you can also try to use HDToolbox on your real Amiga.
 
Just boot with the 3.1 install floppy and change the the device tooltype of hdtoolbox to gvpscsi.device.

[sim085]

From WinUAE, when I change the MaxTransfer from HDToolBox everything seems to crash. As soon as I press 'save change' it acts very strange! starts freezing.

Additionally sometimes Windows may just un blug the USB adapter! I do not know ... maybe it is the USB adapter that is faulty!

[MozzerFan]

It's either the CF card itself or the cardreader.
 
It's not a good sign that you cannot format the card under Windows XP.
 
If possible, test it with another cardreader.

[sim085]

I think it is more probable that the problem is the card reader because when on A500+ I managed to install workbench wothout even one error! (neither checksum errors!).

Additionally WinXP keeps giving strange errors! I will try to use the card reader on another OS (Vista) and see if I have more luck

.. all in all I am happy that I can Install Workbench on the CF card from the A500+ ... all I am scared is the number of formats I did on the poor card

[sim085]

With Windows Vista I have some better results but still far from a solution.

I tried copy the contents from my laptop to the CF card but I had a lot of checksum errors. I must admit that using MaxTransfer equal to 0xfe00 gave me less errors then using 0x1fe00 however the errors seemed to be on the same files.

Also from my A500+ I can format (from workbench) any drive, while when in WinUAE, after selecting this option, after some time I get an error "Not a DOS disk".

In short, from WinUAE my CF card is identified but I can not manage to interact with this CF card!

[MozzerFan]

Try to format the card under vista, and if that works partition and format the card under winuae.
 
If the NDOS icon doesn't show after you partitioned it, try to format the card from a shell.
This is the way you did it the first time, and that worked, so I think you should try it that way.

[sim085]

Hi again ... ok I can confirm all the problems where because of the card reader. I had an external hard drive. pulled the IDE -> CF adapter out of the GVP and put all cables in place inside the external hard drive. The CF card and works fine in WinUAE ... also I can format from Windows without any problem!! ... aahh ... I should have thought about faulty card reader before.

Thanks for all the help