16 June 2007, 06:30 | #1 |
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Seriously frustrating, what to do next?
Well it's a little shitfull when you have 100 meg of software in adf format on your pc, and just OS 3.1 on your miggy 1200. I ordered and recieved a Compact Flash to PCMCIA adapter, and tried it with a Sandisk Ultra II 1gb. Prepcard sees it but can't do anything with it. So I got a plain Sandisk 512mb, and the same story. What is the general scenario when you place a Compact Flash and adapter in the pcmcia port? Do you get a drive icon on the Workbench screen? Is the compactflash.device required? I am a little lost at this point. All the software I wish to run is unavailable to me until I get this going. Including DOpus.
I have no other means to transfer at my disposal, ie Null modem or similar. |
16 June 2007, 06:33 | #2 |
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try transfering by the means of floppy?
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16 June 2007, 06:35 | #3 | |
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16 June 2007, 07:03 | #4 |
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Well, after reading a few related pages, it seems I need compactflash.device as found on EasyADF's floppy. And Fat95, also found on this disk apparantly. So, all I need is this disk. I already have the adapter and card. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!
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16 June 2007, 07:34 | #5 |
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How much big is your hard disk? I suggest you to use compact flash to transfer Killergorilla WHDLoad Pack (downloaded by PC) so you can install and play games from your Amiga hard disk.
With little and cheap adapter you can use one of your CF like HD. On real Amiga I would use ADF format only for the games not supported by WHDLoad. |
16 June 2007, 07:49 | #6 | |
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16 June 2007, 08:08 | #7 |
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You're right. For some programs I do this like you too. Have a good job...
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16 June 2007, 09:25 | #8 |
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As with most drives on the Amiga you need THREE things:
device filesystem mountlist For PCMCIA CF adapters these are respectively: compactflash.device in DEVS: fat95 in L: and a text file (named lets say CF0) like the one below in SYS:Storage/DOSDrivers/ or DEVS:DOSDrivers Code:
FileSystem = l:fat95 Device = compactflash.device Unit = 0 Flags = 0 LowCyl = 0 HighCyl = 0 Surfaces = 1 BlocksPerTrack = 1 BlockSize = 512 Buffers = 20 BufMemType = 1 BootPri = 0 Stacksize = 4096 Priority = 5 GlobVec = -1 DosType = 0x46415401 Activate = 1 All the necessary files are on this ADF. What set of Workbench disks (version and names) you've got? Since you still need to transfer that adf to a floppy and these will come in handy :) Also all of the mentioned software is on Aminet |
16 June 2007, 09:45 | #9 |
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All i want to say to ORSM T is "damn its #@$@%@ cold here in Melbourne right now" !!!. Have your nuts & garden hose retreated like mine have every morning?!.
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16 June 2007, 09:51 | #10 | |
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16 June 2007, 10:13 | #12 |
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Well, put the zip file on a pc 720kB disk along with unzip (from aminet) and transdisk (from winuae amiga programs directory), mount pc0: on the A1200, jam in the 720kB disk and copy the stuff over, unzip it to ram: or your HD, transdisk -w your adf to a blank floppy.
I'm sure you can find a PC with a floppy drive somewhere! |
16 June 2007, 10:22 | #13 | |
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16 June 2007, 11:02 | #14 |
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I see you need to lurk more. :-)
You can either format the disks on an A1200, open up a CLI and say: mount pc0: sys:system/format drive pc0: name mydisk noicons (or use the mouse and format the disk from wb if you enjoy using an inferior input device ;-) Or you can format the disks in XP by opening up a command prompt and saying: format /T:80 /N:9 a: As you noticed, the XP format dialog no longer offers the old formats, but the OS itself supports them just fine. If you use HD disks formatted as DD, you must tape over the HD detection hole before inserting it into the PC drive. Also some Amiga Tech A1200s need the piece of tape, I have heard. |
16 June 2007, 11:16 | #15 | |
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P.S. I tried both methods to format a 720k floppy. Both worked a treat. I'm impressed. Last edited by ORSM T; 16 June 2007 at 15:51. |
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16 June 2007, 12:05 | #16 |
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Man you guys rock.... "It's alive"
Thank you so very much. Now I have some work to do..... |
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