Formatting CF Card on Win 7 to use with Amiga PCMCIA

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by Arnie

Was it formatted Fat32 when you first bought it?

Hi A - Yeah I believe so. (could be wrong) I remember it came with a ADAPCMCFL floppy disk, which was installed on the amiga so the CF card could be used with pcmcia.

Maybe workbench could format it to FAT32? Maybe through cli or shell? As it does read the drive when placed into the pcmcia slot.

Thanks

[Arnie]

So what was the card formatted to before you tried formatting in windows?

[Toni Wilen]

Bad card (possibly returns bad data when software queries higher ATA information or something like that) or bad adapter.

Drive size shown on disk management/diskpart is physical size returned by CF card. Formatted filesystem type is irrelevant.

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by Arnie

So what was the card formatted to before you tried formatting in windows?

yes, i believe so by the people at amiga kit. reads ok in WB but not windows.

[Arnie]

Originally Posted by clitosa

Believe so

So do I, so was it Fat32 or FFF/SFS?

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Bad card (possibly returns bad data when software queries higher ATA information or something like that) or bad adapter.

Drive size shown on disk management/diskpart is physical size returned by CF card. Formatted filesystem type is irrelevant.

Hi T, so it's the card or the adapter.

Do you mean the physical size of the CF drive is 2TB but it was partitioned as a 128MB?

Thanks

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by Arnie

So do I, so was it Fat32 or FFF/SFS?

Oh sorry A - I do not know, anyway to find out? We have being trying FAT32

[Arnie]

Did you always use the card in the PCMCIA slot or did you connect it to the ide port and install WB to it?

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by Arnie

Did you always use the card in the PCMCIA slot or did you connect it to the ide port and install WB to it?

Hi A - Just the PCMCIA slot. Never connected it to the ide port.

[Arnie]

So it must already be formatted to Fat32? If you right click on the drive for the USB 2.0 CF Card Reader adapter (with the card inserted) and choose properties, it will tell you what the card is formatted as.

Alternately diskpart will show the same info if you type list volume.

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by Arnie

So it must already be formatted to Fat32? If you right click on the drive for the USB 2.0 CF Card Reader adapter (with the card inserted) and choose properties, it will tell you what the card is formatted as.

Alternately diskpart will show the same info if you type list volume.

Thanks A - I shall look into this and let you know.

May have to buy a new cf card from amigakit as we think that the card maybe faulty.

Thanks again for the help

[Retroplay]

I highly recommend you get one of these:

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by Retroplay

I highly recommend you get one of these:

thanks R - If it's a case of a bad CF, i'll go for that one. Appreciated

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by Arnie

So it must already be formatted to Fat32? If you right click on the drive for the USB 2.0 CF Card Reader adapter (with the card inserted) and choose properties, it will tell you what the card is formatted as.

Alternately diskpart will show the same info if you type list volume.

Hello again - we can see from right clicking the drive and going to properties, that it is set to removable. Should there be an icon for the adapter?

Have attached the results of the list volume using diskpart.

Thanks again.

[Arnie]

The card is RAW, i.e no partition table, so no icon will show. 2047GB? I agree with retro, the card looks like it's faulty.

You could try partition recovery software, there's a program called EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition that has this built in.

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by Arnie

The card is RAW, i.e no partition table, so no icon will show. 2047GB? I agree with retro, the card looks like it's faulty.

You could try partition recovery software, there's a program called EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition that has this built in.

Thanks again for all the help arnie. I'll try that, cheers

[Retrofan]

Originally Posted by Retroplay

I highly recommend you get one of these:

Yes, very large picture, and "Ultra II" can take you to think that it's better than what I prefer... just "Ultra", but it is 30Mb/s. You won't need in any of the cases more than 10Mb/s, so just look for the cheapest one you can get between them.

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by Retrofan

Yes, very large picture, and "Ultra II" can take you to think that it's better than what I prefer... just "Ultra", but it is 30Mb/s. You won't need in any of the cases more than 10Mb/s, so just look for the cheapest one you can get between them.

Hi Retro - thanks for the advice. So a SanDisk Utra (does not have to be II) at 10mb/s is just as good as a Ultra II at 15mb/s or more?

Thanks, m

[clitosa]

Having difficulty locating those SanDisk Ultra CF's no larger than 4GB in size or 15mb in speed.

Have heard about some fakes on ebay. Could anyone could recommend some good sellers not on ebay please? Links are best if possible. Thanks

[clitosa]

Yep card has to be faulty - Neither EaseUS Partion Master of Data Recovery Wizard is able to format or recover the drive.

Help - we need a SanDisk!

Here's one from amigakit, but it's more expensive and it's unclear on what type of CF is it. We have sent them an email.

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/...roducts_id=911