01 December 2008, 19:12 | #81 |
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I'm using a SanDisk CF PCMCIA adaptor. However, the only card I got to work with it is an Integral 1 GB. Neither a Kingston 1 GB nor an Extrememory 4 GB work though. Any special reason why this is?
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The newer cards are ATAPI (like CD-ROM) rather than ATA (IDE).
Why? Because ATA doesn't support removable media. I think that the CFD driver could be fixed to work with these cards. SanDisk cards (at least older ones) can be forced to FIXED instead of REMOVABLE using a DOS command line tool ATCFWCHG.COM |
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I'm looking for NDCFWCHG.COM. Does anyone have it and would they be so nice as to share it with me? I got hold of ATCFWCHG.COM, but it doesn't work with my card.
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I would like to get ahold of both ndcfwchg.com and atcfwchg.com and test those as well...
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Anyone had any luck using larger 8 gb + CF cards via the PCMCIA slot?
Thinking of getting an 8 gig Sandisk Ultra II for mod and music storage. The 4 gig one works great, but would like atleast 8 gigs. 16 would be even better. |
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compactflash.device supports TD64 commands, so I think it should work. Sandisk is an excellent option.
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31 December 2008, 10:50 | #87 |
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I never found it, but I doubt it would work. From what I have read there is a date code on the side of the cards, for NDCFWCHG.COM to work they need to be older than year 2003, month 1. The code is "AR+YYMM", so 2003, month 1 is "AR0301".
ATCFWCHG.COM is a newer utility for use with "Athens" controller based cards. AFAIK SanDisk has moved to a newer controller which currently has no software to change to fixed. |
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I have IBM Microdrive PCMCIA Card Adapter with IBM Microdrive card on it. Is it supporter by A1200 witn WB 3.1?
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I just bought a Transcend 8GB.... and
It wont work I tried Fat and Fat32, as well with only a 1 gig partition.... Is there anything else I could do before i throw it in the bin? OH, btw, sometimes when I remove the CF from the PCMCIA adapter, it gives me the following error, in German! (WTF) DISK " " Zu Fruh Entnommen! wiederholen / abrechen Last edited by Nostromo; 05 February 2009 at 21:19. |
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There is some discussion about this error message in this thread: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=42139 prowler |
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An update:
Ok - I tried some stuff: PREPCARD: This detects the CF (including its name!), but when I select FORMAT, it says something along the lines of "Disk is write protected". FORMAT: Both CC0: and CF0: are listed but the sizes are weird, like 20k and 0k. Side note: I have IDEFIX installed. Any ideas what I could do to get my CF working? Cheers E'Blue |
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You are not supposed to use PREPCARD.
You have to format your card on the PC using FAT16 or FAT32 Perhaps your 8GB card is just not compatible anyway. I['d use a 4GB Transcend @ 133Mhz. |
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Perhaps there is overflow in filesystem handler or device driver causing >=8G cards to fail.
It can't be "usual" incompatibility (card not detected) if prepcard shows name of the card. |
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I was reading someone did use a 32GB flash cart without problems.
I have IDE-FIX installed - maybe it has issues? |
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I am using OS 3.1. But none of the partitions I created (using the PC) are larger than 4gb.
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