Two CF cards inside Amiga

[UK-Robbie]

Hello,
I have gone and got my self a two way 44 pin cable what lets you had two CF cards inside your Amiga. When setting up the CF cards in HDTools, i can see the two CF cards but when settings up the cards my second CF card is not showing up on workbeach. I have got both cards set to master and slave.

Any help i will be grateful :biglaugh:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

What model Amiga? What is the capacity and brand of the two cards? What file system are you using? (i.e., FFS, PFS, etc.)

[UK-Robbie]

What model Amiga? What is the capacity and brand of the two cards? What file system are you using? (i.e., FFS, PFS, etc.)

It's Amiga 1200 and two Sandisk CF cards, one CF card as got Green Amiga Alien Addition Workbench 38.36
Both cards are 4gb in size

[UK-Robbie]

As anyone had any luck with two CF cards in Amiga?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

As anyone had any luck with two CF cards in Amiga?

I've used as many as four cards at a time (two CF, an SD, and an xD), but I'm using the Mechware SCSI card readers on mine.  :idea:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Just as a quick test, try swapping the cards?  Any difference?

[UK-Robbie]

Hi thank you for the fast reply.
Yes i have had ago trying both cards in both CF slots but still the same.
When putting the Workbench CF in any slot it will load when setting the jumper to matter.
But still no luck on the sceond CF card.

[UK-Robbie]

This is the Cable i have got if any one like to know.
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_67&products_id=607

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

You're certain the second card is not defective?  Can you use just that one, and prep/boot off it?   I'm confident this should work, but getting a bit outside my experience at this point. By swapping the cards around you've ruled out any issue with the cable or card readers.  What version of HDToolbox are you using?  What partition size are you creating on them?
 
You're prepping both the cards exactly the same, but the second one isn't showing up on Workbench when you reboot, correct?  Will any other software detect it?  i.e., SysInfo, Check4GB, etc.?  This last one is a tool I used before, it was able to help me troubleshoot an issue I had where several partitions on a card weren't showing up on WB.  Might help to give it a quick run...

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/check4gb

[UK-Robbie]

When i unplug the CF card that i'm going to use for work and games and only plug the CF card with workbench on it in any slot it will boot workbench with out any problems when set to matter.

[UK-Robbie]

I think i will go back using my old CF cable that only let you use one CF card. It works and i'm tired from trying to get the two CF cards to work on this cable i got.

Thank you very much for your help

[Dr.Bongo]

I use 2 4gb CF cards at once, it's an A4000 though. I'm using OS3.9, IDEFIX and a 4way buffered interface. Works perfectly (also have a CDRom on chained to it)

[Akiko]

I can't remember which forum but I read a thread on this topic awhile back and the solution was to configure something in HDToolbox.

[lionstorm]

here maybe ? http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=19899