PC & Amiga Partitions on one CF Card

amigoun · 16 March 2013, 13:40

My intention is to have a CF Card filled with both PC (FAT) & Amiga (PFS) Partitions. This would allow me easy file transfer between PC & Amiga (just plug-in to card reader - copy files). Otherwise (in case of only Amiga partition I have to start WinUAE add Harddrive and than copy files under Amiga emulation, which is not that easy and comfortable)..

How to do that:
First I preped the CF card in PC - under DOS with fdisk I get rid of the one big partition and made a 100 MB FAT partition.
Than under Amiga I used FAT95 - boot95 command to install fat-filesystem to CF card which worked fine and the FAT partition was accessible to Amiga.
Than I wanted to add an Amiga partition. I started HDInstTools and checked the CF card. Filesystems show it has FAT filesystem installed and Partitions show one PC 100 MB Partition - fine. I added a small Amiga FFS partition after the PC one. Saved info to disk and rebooted. All worked fine and I get PC & Amiga partitions on one CF Card accessible.
Next I wanted to have PFS partition instead a FFS one. But, when I insert a PFS filesystem I cannot save it to Card because of an error 1005. I think it is because lack of space between MBR and first PC partition (readme of FAT95 says theres around 30 kb space) which is not sufficient for both PFS & FAT.

Does anyone have a clue if it is No-Go or if theres any way to make a PC partition so there would be more than 30 kb between MBR and the partition itself?

thomas · 16 March 2013, 13:52

Use DiskPart instead of FDisk and specify a higher offset for the first partition.

amigoun · 16 March 2013, 15:58

thanks thomas! That really did the trick! With the diskpart parameter align=1024 I was able to save both filesystems to the card and everything works as intended!
I am more than happy now!

Billy Miles · 17 March 2013, 04:49

Hi
Could you guys tell me how to make a CF card with Amiga format partitions to use on PCMCIA reader on a real amiga? I only read stories of ppl using FAT cf cards. Is this possible? If so , how to do it? Can it be done on a real amiga?

adrdesign · 08 February 2015, 05:47

Im trying to set up my A600 for real audio use and broke almost 2 cf cards

actually I only managed to do a working setup for a 20gb HDD.

Please could anyone upload an empty cf IMG for this (pfs+fat95 formatted, nothing installed). Thanks in advance!

16 March 2013, 13:40	#1
amigoun Registered User Join Date: May 2010 Location: Czech Rep Posts: 599	PC & Amiga Partitions on one CF Card My intention is to have a CF Card filled with both PC (FAT) & Amiga (PFS) Partitions. This would allow me easy file transfer between PC & Amiga (just plug-in to card reader - copy files). Otherwise (in case of only Amiga partition I have to start WinUAE add Harddrive and than copy files under Amiga emulation, which is not that easy and comfortable).. How to do that: First I preped the CF card in PC - under DOS with fdisk I get rid of the one big partition and made a 100 MB FAT partition. Than under Amiga I used FAT95 - boot95 command to install fat-filesystem to CF card which worked fine and the FAT partition was accessible to Amiga. Than I wanted to add an Amiga partition. I started HDInstTools and checked the CF card. Filesystems show it has FAT filesystem installed and Partitions show one PC 100 MB Partition - fine. I added a small Amiga FFS partition after the PC one. Saved info to disk and rebooted. All worked fine and I get PC & Amiga partitions on one CF Card accessible. Next I wanted to have PFS partition instead a FFS one. But, when I insert a PFS filesystem I cannot save it to Card because of an error 1005. I think it is because lack of space between MBR and first PC partition (readme of FAT95 says theres around 30 kb space) which is not sufficient for both PFS & FAT. Does anyone have a clue if it is No-Go or if theres any way to make a PC partition so there would be more than 30 kb between MBR and the partition itself?

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16 March 2013, 13:52	#2
thomas Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 7,002	Use DiskPart instead of FDisk and specify a higher offset for the first partition.

16 March 2013, 15:58	#3
amigoun Registered User Join Date: May 2010 Location: Czech Rep Posts: 599	thanks thomas! That really did the trick! With the diskpart parameter align=1024 I was able to save both filesystems to the card and everything works as intended! I am more than happy now!

17 March 2013, 04:49	#4
Billy Miles AmiCDTV Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Phoenix, USA Posts: 28	Hi Could you guys tell me how to make a CF card with Amiga format partitions to use on PCMCIA reader on a real amiga? I only read stories of ppl using FAT cf cards. Is this possible? If so , how to do it? Can it be done on a real amiga?

08 February 2015, 05:47	#5
adrdesign Registered User Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Spain Age: 45 Posts: 314	Im trying to set up my A600 for real audio use and broke almost 2 cf cards actually I only managed to do a working setup for a 20gb HDD. Please could anyone upload an empty cf IMG for this (pfs+fat95 formatted, nothing installed). Thanks in advance!

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