PCMCIA CF Transfer Kit - CF0:Uninitialized

[Amon_RA]

I bought a PCMCIA CF Transfer Kit for my A1200. Installed the fat95 and compactflash.device that came with it.

As soon as I insert a 8GB FAT32 formatted CF I get a grey-out icon on the workbench desktop with the text CF0:uninitialized...

The 8GB FAT32 CF works fine in my ACA500/A500.

Is there something I'm missing? Or is my CF not playing well?

[Nobby_UK]

CardPatch ?

Or Expansion Card disabling the PCMCIA ?

[Amon_RA]

Originally Posted by Nobby_UK

CardPatch ?

Or Expansion Card disabling the PCMCIA ?

Thank you for the suggestions.

What exactly do you mean with CardPatch?

I'm using a ACA1232 as expansion, if it would disable the PCMCIA workbench wouldn't recognize that I inserted a CF (which it does), right?

[Daedalus]

CardPatch fixes some issues with interrupts that causes problems with certain combinations of hardware. It's certainly worth trying, though it does sound like the card is being read ok and that it's a filesystem / device driver issue. Do you have an RDB installed on the card for using it in your ACA500? Some cards don't play well when you switch them between hard drive and removable storage roles. Also, the ACA500 probably has its own built-in driver software for reading the CF card that is more compatible than compactflash.device. Have you tried any other cards? If there's nothing important on it, try quick formatting it in the PCMCIA slot and see if that helps.

[FOL]

Did you try formatting it in the A1200 using quick.

[Amon_RA]

Originally Posted by Daedalus

CardPatch fixes some issues with interrupts that causes problems with certain combinations of hardware. It's certainly worth trying, though it does sound like the card is being read ok and that it's a filesystem / device driver issue. Do you have an RDB installed on the card for using it in your ACA500? Some cards don't play well when you switch them between hard drive and removable storage roles. Also, the ACA500 probably has its own built-in driver software for reading the CF card that is more compatible than compactflash.device. Have you tried any other cards? If there's nothing important on it, try quick formatting it in the PCMCIA slot and see if that helps.

I bought a new CF, same issue.
Tried CardPatch, same issue.
I don't have an RDB installed.

Originally Posted by FOL

Did you try formatting it in the A1200 using quick.

I tried a quick format in the PCMCIA slot, it doesn't work, it shows the error that it's not a valid DOS disk

compactflash.device is in Devs/
CF0 and CF0.info are in Devs/DOSDrivers/
fat95 is in L/

When I go to System Format, CF0 is listed (with really wrong size), trying to format results in not a valid DOS disk

[Arnie]

What version of compactflash.device are you using? The latest is 1.32.

[Allen1]

Remember that the 600 and 1200 are choosy about the CF cards that are used in the PCMCIA port, try Sandisk CF cards as they are compatible (some others are too but a lot of others don't work in the PCMCIA port)

[Amon_RA]

Originally Posted by Arnie

What version of compactflash.device are you using? The latest is 1.32.

I'm using the latest 1.32 version.
In the readme it is stated that I could try setting the CF0 mount list flag to 2... :

Damaged or simply not quite officially standardized cards may sometimes
cooperate using

    Flags = 2    /* skip invalid PCMCIA signature */

Where exactly should I do this?

Originally Posted by Allen1

Remember that the 600 and 1200 are choosy about the CF cards that are used in the PCMCIA port, try Sandisk CF cards as they are compatible (some others are too but a lot others don't work in the PCMCIA port)

I guess I need to find a Sandisk CF card then.

[Arnie]

I'll assume that CF0 is in Devs:Dosdrivers.

Open a shell window and type > ED Devs:Dosdrivers/CF0

You'll see a line, flags = 0, change it to 2 and select save from the drop down menu.

[Amon_RA]

Originally Posted by Arnie

I'll assume that CF0 is in Devsosdrivers.

Open a shell window and type > ED Devsosdrivers/CF0

You'll see a line, flags = 0, change it to 2 and select save from the drop down menu.

Thanks, I've tried setting the flag to 1 and 2, and it didn't fix the issue.

[Jope]

You need to reboot and remount it for the flag to work, I assume you did this?

[Amon_RA]

Originally Posted by Jope

You need to reboot and remount it for the flag to work, I assume you did this?

Yes, I did that.

[Amon_RA]

Bought a SanDisk 4GB and it works perfectly!
So it was just a matter of incompatible CFs...