CF card, FAT95 and other riffraff

Torqual · 19 February 2017, 00:53

:: Creeeeaaak ::

Thread opened. First post. Hello!

Got a PCMCIA-adapter for my A1200. CF-card is labelled "Platinum 512MB,"
nothing else. No clue. Friend friendly gave it to me for testing. The thingy is formatted FAT32, empty. CFD mounts it ok as CF0:
FAT95 is installed. However, accessing the drive from CLI like "dir cf0:" results in a "No disk in drive CF0:"
Running OS 3.1.
I want to use this card to exchange files between the Amiga and several other computers, running Windows and UNIX. I guess FAT32 should do the trick.

Any clues?

-Acid- · 19 February 2017, 03:09

Not all CF cards work in the pcmcia port, there is no way to tell you just have to try them and hope. If you have the all the needed files (cf0, fat95 and carddisk.device) in the right places then it might just be an incompatible card (it might work on the ide port though as an Amiga hard drive).

idrougge · 19 February 2017, 03:29

What happens when you quick format the card?

Daedalus · 19 February 2017, 12:21

There are a couple of flags you can set in the mountlist for adjusting compatibility - it might be worth checking them out in the compactflash.device documentation.

Torqual · 24 February 2017, 16:04

Thanks for your replies.
Mhhh...Quick Format also results in "No disk in drive."
Might possibly be the card itself, as -Acid- implied. Worthless then, since I
already got a SD card as HD

@Daedalus: Will check this! If only time wouldn't be so sparse...

19 February 2017, 00:53	#1
Torqual Registered User Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: Germany Posts: 27	CF card, FAT95 and other riffraff :: Creeeeaaak :: Thread opened. First post. Hello! Got a PCMCIA-adapter for my A1200. CF-card is labelled "Platinum 512MB," nothing else. No clue. Friend friendly gave it to me for testing. The thingy is formatted FAT32, empty. CFD mounts it ok as CF0: FAT95 is installed. However, accessing the drive from CLI like "dir cf0:" results in a "No disk in drive CF0:" Running OS 3.1. I want to use this card to exchange files between the Amiga and several other computers, running Windows and UNIX. I guess FAT32 should do the trick. Any clues?

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19 February 2017, 03:09	#2
-Acid- Registered User Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: South Shields Posts: 812	Not all CF cards work in the pcmcia port, there is no way to tell you just have to try them and hope. If you have the all the needed files (cf0, fat95 and carddisk.device) in the right places then it might just be an incompatible card (it might work on the ide port though as an Amiga hard drive).

19 February 2017, 03:29	#3
idrougge Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Stockholm Posts: 4,332	What happens when you quick format the card?

19 February 2017, 12:21	#4
Daedalus Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Dublin, then Glasgow Posts: 6,334	There are a couple of flags you can set in the mountlist for adjusting compatibility - it might be worth checking them out in the compactflash.device documentation.

24 February 2017, 16:04	#5
Torqual Registered User Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: Germany Posts: 27	Thanks for your replies. Mhhh...Quick Format also results in "No disk in drive." Might possibly be the card itself, as -Acid- implied. Worthless then, since I already got a SD card as HD @Daedalus: Will check this! If only time wouldn't be so sparse...

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