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JLPedro 21:22 9th November 2007
Just tried to install a 256 mb Lifetech with a compaq flash adapter and i dont know how to format it. Does it apears an incon on desktop? or the drive unformated is just visible under hd formating tools?
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Teho 21:41 9th November 2007
I'd say it should appear on your desktop, if only as a ??? volume. But it may be that you only see it with the hd tools as it is. Have you tried that? Maybe just try a
format DH0: from the CLI and see what happens? Could try
info from CLI and see if it shows up there.
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Harrison 23:50 9th November 2007
Only other thing I can think, is that if it is acting like a real HD then it will definitely need to be partitioned first before the Amiga will even see it. So try an HD partitioning program and see if that works.
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Stephen Coates 10:31 10th November 2007
Whereabouts is the compact flash adaptor plugged intp?
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JLPedro 14:31 10th November 2007
it's plugged into the 44 pin ide of the A1200.
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JLPedro 16:39 11th November 2007
Done it! managed to partition it with hdtoolbox, after that WB reconised it like a real hd and the light blinks like the real one!
Thanks for the help.
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Zetr0 21:22 22nd January 2008
@JLPedro
ahhh Compact Flash drives for the Amiga, nothing so rightious!! glad you get her up and running with it...
over on the EAB there is a very long thread about compatibility and noted errors.
one that surfaces quite often is false read errors and checksum errors,
if you get these, then there is a cure.
In the Hard disk Info in HDTOOLS is a setting known as MAXTRANSFERS this is not an idicator of speed, its size of the blocks to transfer.
you would need to set this to 0x1fe0000
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that should clear up any incompatibility.
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Harrison 21:51 22nd January 2008
Thanks for that info Zetr0. I've been considering adding a compact flash drive to my A1200 and that will be useful to know.
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JLPedro 21:55 22nd January 2008
At this moment i have replaced the cf adapter for a real 2,5' hd (a hitachi 6GB 5400rpm), with i most say is mutch better, and i'm using os 3.5 so i have acess to the hole 6GB.
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sarek2k 00:27 24th January 2008
@Harrison
Here's a quick picture i did regarding the installation of a compact flash adapter via pcmcia (not tried the 44pin method yet) but this is great for a second drive or maybe even boot into workbench via a floppy / rad disk etc.
I can't remeber all the in's an out's of it all but if anyone wants to go this way i'm sure my good friend Zetro will assist.
Also note : The picture is styled upon Zetro's own A600 mod (if only a tiny part compared to his super mod)
CF Adaptor £2.99 @ scan computers/bolton (and that was over a year ago)
CF Card less than £10 "" (Validated working over at EAB before purchase)
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