A1200 PCMCIA CF Flash drive help? Not seen

[burf2000]

Hi there, really having no luck with my Amiga

I brought a second hand Amiga CF PCMCIA 4gb kit (AmigaKit with ADAPCMCFL)
to check my second amiga PCMCIA slot works (3Com internet)

I booted from the floppy disk in my first amiga (PCMCIA does work) and it does not see the 4gb drive
I checked it worked in my PC, formatted it Fat32 in windows XP and it seems fine.

What am I missing, if I try to format it using Prepcard, it says it's write protected.

Should the drive come up as CF0?

I found a Windows 8 machine and used DiskPart to clean it.

What tools in Amiga should see this drive?

[Arnie]

HDToolbox may see it if you change the scsi_device_name = scsi.device to compactflash.device.

Prepcard wont work for CF cards it's for SRam cards.

Once the floppy has booted open a shell (if it has shell on it, I can't remember) and type info, this will show all mounted drives, The one you're looking for is CF0:

[burf2000]

How do I change the device name> is it setting in the program?

If I want to transfer files from PC to Amiga, what should I format the CF? Fat32?

[-Acid-]

Have you got CFD (http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/cfd) and fat95 (http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/fat95) installed? without them it will never be seen on the pcmcia port.

If you have you might have a CF card that is only recognised on the IDE port and if that is the case all you can do is find a card which does work on the pcmcia port.

Drives usually appear as CF0: and they should be fat32 formatted (fat16 might work not sure).

[burf2000]

Is this the best way to transfer stuff from the PC to the Amigas? I dont have a parallel port in my PC

My PC is now on the internet though

[Arnie]

If you have a serial port on your PC then you can use AExplorer and a null modem cable.

http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/13-134
http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/13-105

[burf2000]

Do you know if these work with USB to serial connectors

[Sir_Lucas]

@burf2000
Regarding your first post.
Have you added CardPatch and CardReset to your Startup-Sequence? They should be in your first lines. You'll find them on Aminet.

[burf2000]

Yes, I have, So I have tried 2 machines.

One has a internal 4gb flash (transend)
the one I am trying to read via PCMCIA is made by Memory Technology Company (blue and white card) sold with reader and amiga software)

[burf2000]

THIS IS NOW FIXED

Thanks people for all your help!

[Arnie]

Originally Posted by burf2000

Do you know if these work with USB to serial connectors

From the AmigaForever Website > The Amiga generally has a 25-pin serial port connector (on the back), whereas PCs use both 9-pin and 25-pin connectors. If the PC does not have a serial port, you can use a USB serial adapter.

Originally Posted by burf2000

One has a internal 4gb flash (transend)
the one I am trying to read via PCMCIA is made by Memory Technology Company (blue and white card) sold with reader and amiga software)

I use Sandisk for PCMCIA, works every time.

[burf2000]

Thanks Arnie, life is all good now!

[Sir_Lucas]

Originally Posted by Arnie

I use Sandisk for PCMCIA, works every time.

I second that. I use Sandisk CF and it works everytime and everywhere.

@burf2000
I'm glad you've managed to sort things out.

[burf2000]

I wonder if you can install OS3.9 from CF?

I managed to fix all my amiga issues now except the floppy drive and I just need to switch motherboards for that, boy has it been a long ride!

[Sir_Lucas]

@burf2000
You can make an ISO file of your OS3.9, copy it to your CF and then use ISOMOUNT to mount it and install it as if it was a real CD.
http://aminet.net/package/util/rexx/isomount124

[burf2000]

Is it worth installing? I have 3.1 at the moment?
I have a 030 blizzard IV 16mb ram, sorry for off topic

[Sir_Lucas]

Originally Posted by burf2000

Is it worth installing? I have 3.1 at the moment?
I have a 030 blizzard IV 16mb ram, sorry for off topic

IMHO OS3.1 is much better and snappier than OS3.9
BlizKick does the job if it comes to speeding it a little bit more.
I also use new icon.library, new scsi.device etc, and a little bit more tinkering and it's much faster than OS3.9

But it's all a matter of preference.

[burf2000]

I am not sure what I want to do with my Amiga's it was nice to get the main one on the internet to be honest

I need to probably go read up on whats recommended. I used to write a lot of games in Amos, now I do iOS. I am guessing I use it for mainly gaming. Oh I also like playing music on it, some old mod's are awesome. Saying that I never found 1 player that played them all, had to use a few

[Sir_Lucas]

Originally Posted by burf2000

I am not sure what I want to do with my Amiga's it was nice to get the main one on the internet to be honest

You can get both of them on the Internet, wired or wireless. With Blizzard 030 it'll be nice. Browsing with a Web browser is a little bit dated as it only supports old standards, yet there are still some Amiga friendly site to be visited. I do it every day There are also FTP, IRC, Twitter, Telnet etc.

This is how Cammy does it

Originally Posted by burf2000

I need to probably go read up on whats recommended. I used to write a lot of games in Amos, now I do iOS. I am guessing I use it for mainly gaming. Oh I also like playing music on it, some old mod's are awesome. Saying that I never found 1 player that played them all, had to use a few

If it comes to gaming then you need WHDLoad as it's the greatest tool whatsoever.

Music: Delitracker, Hippo Player, Eagle Player, SongPlayer etc.

[burf2000]

I use hippo, Deli, and another (cant remember)

Man I want your workbench, what is Cammy?

I brought Amiga forever if that helps. What res is that? I think I had AWeb running but whatever I am doing it looks terrible!

How many colours should I be running, I think I am using new icons with a hint of MUI