Compact Flash card partitioning

[FrankBrana]

Hi dudes

I have got a compact Flash-t-IDE adaptor.

I have put on a CF of 256 in size, which seems to work very well under AOS 3.1, but since I have tried it to boot my actual system which is AOS 3.9 BB2, I have noticed that the card its not partitionable nor bootable under 3.9.

I think its weird.

Any idea?

Regards

[Doobrey]

Yup..definitley weird.
 Have you added anything to the IDE chain?
 Some CF cards like to be the only device on the cable. :pissed:

 I had fun and games getting my CF to partition, and that was under 3.1 ( my OS3.9 CD has gone walkies, I found the case, but as is always the way, it`s empty !)
 Whatever I tried, I couldn`t get the partitions to show up ready for formatting. Installed a filesystem, partitioned the CF card, saved the changes and rebooted..still nothing.
 
 In the end I just thought "what haven`t I pressed ?".. Lowlevel format. I thought using that went out with the ark, but it did the trick.

[Hyperspeed]

This is a fascinating topic...

The prospect of installing a solid state disk system in an Amiga is
very cool and I've seen a few eBay links about here for SiliconTech
800mb Flash drives which run off a simple IDE interface.

There are also tips on Aminet on how to attach a PCMCIA card reader to
the Amiga.

Some even come in SCSI varieties with 6x card capability, 2x card
simultaneous use (on 2x SCSI IDs).

There should be a few files on Aminet on the correct way to format
these devices, I'm sure there was a proper mountfile included with one
too. I don't think it's quite the same as installing a hard disk.

Good luck and keep us in the know when you get it working properly. It
would be cool to have a Compact Flash slot to replace the DF0:!

:-D :-)

[PaSha]

I had no problems using the os3.9 hdtoolbox with my 256 MB CF card....

Currently it's hooked up via a CF-IDE adapter to a IDE-SCSI adapter to a narrow-wide adapter on my CS-PPC. I'll be replacing the two latter with a IDE-UWSCSI adapter some time soon.

It works great.

-Paul

[lordv]

BTW, could anybody give me a hint, how to install CF card (using pcmcia2cf adapter) as a formattable with PFS device?
fat95 does not need any info such as highcyl or lowcyl about the size of CF card, but PFS certainly needs.

I want just to have it pfs-formatted into a pcmcia slot

[delshay]

yes i have one of the scsi type, two slots has own local processor & scsi controller chip on board..

useing two ibm micodrive at the moment...it can do its own formatting to..