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fgh · 02 February 2012, 15:22

I understand that you're using IDEFix Express or some other buffered IDE interface, and idefix software..

I cannot guarantee that your problem is related to this, but unless you are certain that the card reports as a fixed ATA device, it's worth a try.
If you're unable to apply Doobrey's patches from the instructions, you can still check whether IDEfix is causing the problem by connecting the card directly on the IDE port.
However If your CF card is removable (which is tricky to find out) you still need to disable the IDEfix driver from your startup-sequence. (add ; before the relevant lines)

And since this is a 16G card, once you disable IDEfix, you need to apply another scsi.device patch for the system to see the whole card.

There are plenty of guides for patching scsi.device, but here is a short version:
If your system is based on classicWB, just drop a modern scsi.device in devs: and it will run when you reboot.
If not on classicWB you need to download and manually patch the newer scsi.device with the loadmodule command in the beginning of your startup-sequence. ('c:loadmodule devs:scsi.device')

So, to summarize..
1: In WinUAE, disable IDEfix from startup-sequence and setup a modern scsi.device patch.
2: Plug card directly onto a1200 IDE and try again.

Edit:
Your questions are not dumb in any way, this stuff is very confusing, far far away from 'plug and play' ...
You'll find some more info on amiga large HDD support here and here.

02 February 2012, 15:22	#8
fgh Registered User Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Norway Posts: 820	I understand that you're using IDEFix Express or some other buffered IDE interface, and idefix software.. I cannot guarantee that your problem is related to this, but unless you are certain that the card reports as a fixed ATA device, it's worth a try. If you're unable to apply Doobrey's patches from the instructions, you can still check whether IDEfix is causing the problem by connecting the card directly on the IDE port. However If your CF card is removable (which is tricky to find out) you still need to disable the IDEfix driver from your startup-sequence. (add ; before the relevant lines) And since this is a 16G card, once you disable IDEfix, you need to apply another scsi.device patch for the system to see the whole card. There are plenty of guides for patching scsi.device, but here is a short version: If your system is based on classicWB, just drop a modern scsi.device in devs: and it will run when you reboot. If not on classicWB you need to download and manually patch the newer scsi.device with the loadmodule command in the beginning of your startup-sequence. ('c:loadmodule devs:scsi.device') So, to summarize.. 1: In WinUAE, disable IDEfix from startup-sequence and setup a modern scsi.device patch. 2: Plug card directly onto a1200 IDE and try again. Edit: Your questions are not dumb in any way, this stuff is very confusing, far far away from 'plug and play' ... You'll find some more info on amiga large HDD support here and here. Last edited by fgh; 02 February 2012 at 15:28.