RocHard, compatible with 4gb CF-IDE?

[fitzsteve]

Hi!

I want to help my buddy Marco (Zambot) out with a kick ass Workbench for his A500+ we're going to get online and I'll be talking him through the install but I need some info before we start as I've not used one of these before, this is the drive:

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/rochard

Marco has this hooked up to his A500 so he has 1mb Chip and 8 (or 9) mb Fast. We want to setup Classic Workbench 68k with the OCS games on a 4gb CF-IDE.

Firstly, does anyone know if this drive will support a CF-IDE adapter and if it will support a drive 4gb in size?

Marco has already ordered a 3.1 Rom and a kickstart switcher from Amigakit. So he will have 1.3rom and 3.1rom available.

The next thing is, would be dead easy for me just to make the CF for him in UAE but in the above link it mentions that only drives prepared by the RocHard can be read

If thats the case I guess Marco could just prepare the CF and send it to me to setup or I could talk him through setting it up through UAE once its partitioned, I assume UAE would be able to read a CF partitioned by the RocHard?

Thanks in advance all, with your help we'll have Marco up and running with a Kick Ass A500+ with rom swither and CWB68k & 4gb of WHDLoadness!!!

Cheers!

Steve.

[cpiac64]

i have rochard800 and i have same dubt, i suppose is necessary use the utilty install-disk for format and next install wb3.x

i go to test with my hd and my cf-ide 4gb and post result.

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by cpiac64

i have rochard800 and i have same dubt, i suppose is necessary use the utilty install-disk for format and next install wb3.x

i go to test with my hd and my cf-ide 4gb and post result.

Thanks I'd really appreciate that

[cpiac64]

2 hours for test:
my psu of rochard don't go very well, the 5 volt down 4 with old hd

with hd 2,5 ide 77 mega the utility format and copy wb on hd, when reboot is ok
with cf 4 giga the size is 3781 but cylinder, head and sector not real and don't save on cf
tomorrow i insert the right number og cylinder, head and sector and format.

i suppose with a cf minor at 2 giga function ok

sorry for my bad english

[fitzsteve]

Thanks for the efforts, its appreciated

[cpiac64]

nothing, the utility don't wryte size and geometry of cf-4giga on cf, the size is 2 digit max if you wryte manually, need patch the utility for large hd

[cpiac64]

news, the floppy dms on amiga resource is version2, i need transform dms in real floppy for new test

[fitzsteve]

Will keep our fingers crossed! Again thanks so much for the help

[cpiac64]

i have transform my first floppy from dms with success but the utility are equal and the floppy have only add utility for scsi, i test with hd 200mb but don't go, read the parameter but not wryte on hd and not format.

i have successfull only with 80mb 2,5" hd, i need a cf 64mb in my old photocamera but i have loan at my brother

[fitzsteve]

Hi thanks so much for all the help.

Marco now though is using 1gb HDD, so I'm wondering how this is possible?

Again, I appreciate your efforts.

Steve.

[cpiac64]

the interface support 4 hd, tomorrow test with a 80mb real hd on first channel and a cf 4gb on second channel

[cpiac64]

the last chance, i have found on aminet the utility _http://de5.aminet.net/disk/misc/rdp391.lha

help me for use it
? DEVICE=scsi.device
? RDPrep -d scsi.device

[cpiac64]

update
i use a cf 128 mega with cf-ide

[elpiloto]

contact me i have the full rochard 800c tool

[elpiloto]

i mannaged to be able to use a 20gb hdd, the rochard utility only shows 8gb avaliable, there is no way to writte the proper C H S values on that aplication, so i think we are stuck on 8gb. these controllers use rtide.device and rtscsi.device, and not scsi.device, tehy are not RDB and hddtoolbox wont see it. so .....