Writing to a SanDisk Flashdisk card

[dewolfjm]

Recently acquired a 175 MB Flashdisk PCMCIA card (made by SanDisk) for my A1200, but am having trouble doing anything useful with it.  Although I believe I installed the provided software correctly (Fat 95 device, etc.) and it does come up on the Workbench display as two devices (FDO and the card's alpha-numerical name), the Amiga's PrepCard utility tells me it's write protected.  When I save stuff to it or re-name it, the files and the name disappear when the card is removed.  So it's behaving like a RAM disk.  But files I save to it don't load when I try to retrieve them, so it's not working as RAM very well either.  Any ideas?

[Ferry]

I've been using a 64MB Trascent Compact Flash card with an adaptor for PCMCIA without problems. IFAIK, you don't have to use PrepCard at all, it is used only for PCMCIA mem cards up to 8 MB (Amiga carddisk.device does not recognize more than this, IIRC). You have to use cfd.lha from Aminet, together with fat95 (only if you want to read PC formatted cards, you can format it in Amiga format), and only a cf0: device, with its volume name, should appear on WB.

Hope this helps.

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

[dewolfjm]

That's helpful.  I had tried re-formatting it as an Amiga disk but as I could not write to it, this did not work.  I will try the cfd.lha and see if that works better than the software which was supplied with the card.