Compact Flash crazy - Page 2

Toryglen-boy · 14 January 2017, 02:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by fgh

It might be an incompatible card but I'm not convinced until you tell us the exact error message you get from hdtoolbox, and what the tooltype scsi_device_name is currently set to. (on real hw, not in uae)

and i think this is the issue to, that i alluded to, not sure how to set the device in tooltype properly.

Toryglen-boy · 14 January 2017, 04:43

UPDATE : Ok, pretty sure i have an idea, its defo the card. i also noticed there was a master/slave jumper on there, with no jumper! tiny it is, so i put a jumper on it, set it to master, and i could see it on the Amiga! i configured the drive, and when i went to save it, it spat out an error, "error -1 write", i have never heard of a CF card being write protected, so i tried a small 64M Sandisk, and it work, it partitioned fine, from the Amiga rebooted, and there it was NDOS???? disk ready for formatting, put the 2GB Transcend back in, and its no thanks. Also, when the card was scanned from HDToolbox, the Sandisk showed all sorts of information, model, revision, name, that kinda thing, the Transcend showed nothing, just a tilde symbol for all the fields, am starting to think i will just stick to Sandisk.

demolition · 14 January 2017, 12:40

Not all Transcend cards are made equal. They probably use several sources for their cards and just put their own stickers on them, so sometimes you will have success, other times not.

rare_j · 14 January 2017, 14:37

Compactflash is a sandisk thing, so it is no surprise that they stick to the specification that says it is IDE compatible. Other manufacturers might play a bit fast and loose, and as long as they work in a camera 99.9% or people wouldn't know the difference.

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14 January 2017, 04:43	#22
Toryglen-boy Registered User Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Glesga Posts: 265	UPDATE : Ok, pretty sure i have an idea, its defo the card. i also noticed there was a master/slave jumper on there, with no jumper! tiny it is, so i put a jumper on it, set it to master, and i could see it on the Amiga! i configured the drive, and when i went to save it, it spat out an error, "error -1 write", i have never heard of a CF card being write protected, so i tried a small 64M Sandisk, and it work, it partitioned fine, from the Amiga rebooted, and there it was NDOS???? disk ready for formatting, put the 2GB Transcend back in, and its no thanks. Also, when the card was scanned from HDToolbox, the Sandisk showed all sorts of information, model, revision, name, that kinda thing, the Transcend showed nothing, just a tilde symbol for all the fields, am starting to think i will just stick to Sandisk.

14 January 2017, 12:40	#23
demolition Unregistered User Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Copenhagen / DK Age: 44 Posts: 4,190	Not all Transcend cards are made equal. They probably use several sources for their cards and just put their own stickers on them, so sometimes you will have success, other times not.

14 January 2017, 14:37	#24
rare_j Zone Friend Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London Posts: 1,178	Compactflash is a sandisk thing, so it is no surprise that they stick to the specification that says it is IDE compatible. Other manufacturers might play a bit fast and loose, and as long as they work in a camera 99.9% or people wouldn't know the difference.

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