EAB CF card compatibility list

[jimmer78]

256MB Lexar - doesn't work with PCMCIA or IDE
2GB DANE-ELEC x133 - Works with IDE not PCMCIA
8GB Sandisk EXTREME IV - does not work with either - locks amiga up!
2GB MyDATA - Does not work with either - locks amiga up!

[petemaxi]

Originally Posted by cosmicfrog

yay I`m CF compatible

Kingston 4GB Compact Flash Card (CF/4GB) to Amiga IDE Working
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...137&subcat=222

I used one of theses in a PCMCIA adapter, worked fine on Window$ and Linux, but on the Amiga, it didn't show all files, and renamed and corrupted other files, very strange.

Going to get a SanDisk UltraII methinks, loads on here have recommended.

[Cloudane]

Originally Posted by cosmicfrog

yay I`m CF compatible

Kingston 4GB Compact Flash Card (CF/4GB) to Amiga IDE Working
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...137&subcat=222

Seconded and also confirmed with PCMCIA adapter. (Bought mine from eBuyer, about the cheapest they had)

Needs the usual maxtransfer settings when used on IDE.

[fryguy]

Pretty strange, I've been using a PNY 4GB CFcard on the IDE controller, with my B1230IV and it has been working fine. But for a couple of days ago i bought a B1260 (very cheap but it seems to work fine), and now when i use WB3.9 i have to manually reset after it loaded the AmigaOS ROM update file to make it boot. And if i boot without S-S it won't find the "harddrive". I tried with another CF-card and that works fine (not having to reset after it loads the rom updatefile and works fine when booting without S-S).

At first i also got a lot of maxtransfer issues with the PNY card when i tried it, but i fixed it, but the other two issues remains. So it seems like it depends on which CPU you got if the card works.

I ordered a Sandisk Extreme II now which will hopefully work fine.

[BarryB]

This is the Adapter and Card I just received for my A1200:



Setup with HDInstTools:

Device: SDCFH-004G
FS: PDS\3
DH0: 1GB, MASK 0xFFFFFFFF, TRANSFER 0x0001FE00, BUFFERS 200
DH1: 3GB, MASK 0xFFFFFFFF, TRANSFER 0x0001FE00, BUFFERS 200

Quick formatted via a bootbale WB3.0 disk with CD Support, then OS3.9 installed immediately after, working so far!

[qrulf]

SandDisk Extreme III 2.0GB: Working fine in PCMCIA-adapter (A1200 rev.1D1).


Kingston standard 8GB. Working fine in CF-adapter, MaxTransfer: 0x1fe00 (A1200 rev.1D1).

[TroelsDK]

Just bought these 2, NOT compatible.

It give me the message "Unit is not a disk (type 7)"

BUT, according to BarryB (2 posts up) his works... ???

My A1200 has Rev.1d, and 3.0 Roms

[demolition]

I have two of the right one (Sandisk Ultra 4G) and they work fine it both my 600 and 1200. Yes, it does say type 7 with the normal HDToolbox, but there is a patch that will stop HDToolbox from moaning and just use it anyway. It is not a hardware issue.
http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/HDToolBoxPatch

[TroelsDK]

Originally Posted by demolition

I have two of the right one (Sandisk Ultra 4G) and they work fine it both my 600 and 1200. Yes, it does say type 7 with the normal HDToolbox, but there is a patch that will stop HDToolbox from moaning and just use it anyway. It is not a hardware issue.
http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/HDToolBoxPatch

Once again Demolition to the rescue!

Reminds me that I'm in need of some assistance again with your soldering skills

Back on topic... Do I copy this file to the Workbench Install disk? Where do I put it on the disk?

[demolition]

I put the patched version in the zone, so simply rename this one and overwrite your current one.

[spanner]

Transcend 4 GB works fine with sfs file system.. That what i have in mine.

[TroelsDK]

OK with demolitions patched HDtoolbox the Sandisk works, but no luck with the Transcend.

Thanks Demo!

[tomcat666]

Finally switched over from noisy 3.5" drive in my A1200 to the Compact Flash club ;-)

Anyway... got a generic 2.5" IDE -> CF card adapter for 1 EUR and this Kingston 4GB 33x cf card. What I did :

Used the CF in the PCMCIA card adapter and it worked flawlesly - formatted to fat32 and LHA'd my whole 2GB hd onto the card.

Then I took the card to card reader and used diskpart on it (win7) and did CLEAN command on it. After that configured WinUAE so it used it as HD (type UAE). Then used the HDToolBox with uaehf.device and prepped the card.

Here I had the first obstacle... I could format the 2nd partition ONLY if the 1st partition was less than 1GB big. If the first partition was over 1GB big then I always go the "Disk not in drive" error when trying to format the 2nd partition.
So in the end I went with first partition of 1Gb size and second 2Gb - more than enough.
Formatted both partitions with FFS and that was it.

Then I copied over my Workbench, etc. to the 1st partition (about 250Mb all in all) - no problems there.
When I copied over my Games parititon (900Mb in size) the copying ALWAYS froze at some point - not always at the same spot. The copy operation just stopped and froze - winuae and workbench was still working though.
After the rest I got not-validated disk though. Sometimes it validated itself OK, sometimes I got a Bad Sector error. A bit strange that. But after it validated itself I could copy over the rest of the stuff. DiskSalv did NOT find any problems on the disk - everything seemed OK after validation and after the rest of the files were copied.
NOTE: I tried the same with my other 4GB Sandisk card which I use in the camera and got THE SAME erorr. I wonder if this is a problem of my Card Reader or something?

On the A1200 I then used the generic IDE 2.5" -> CF adapter, put the card into it and turned on the Amiga. Works Flawlesly so far - no problems, no errors, everything just works and pretty fast too (faster than 3.5" drive I had before).

Edit: Also got LED to work now - just a wire needed to be soldered on the el-cheapo cf adapter. Got the info from this forum

So in the end - I would recommend this Kingston 4GB CF. It all worked out fine

[demolition]

Originally Posted by TroelsDK

OK with demolitions patched HDtoolbox the Sandisk works, but no luck with the Transcend.

Did you try cleaning the Transcend card using diskpart?
Alternatively, you could try copying a working image (from the Sandisk card) to the transcend card using dd or Winimage.

[Nobby_UK]

Kingston 4GB (Worked as IDE, but NOT with FAT32) NOW DEAD


Replaced with SanDisk 4GB SDHC Card + SD Reader
Anybody know if those MultiCard (PCMCIA) Readers work ?

Maxell 4GB, Works as IDE, but not with FAT32

Transcend 4GB 133x Works with Everything

So these are the CF cards ive tried in my Amiga 600 PCMCIMA port comes up with disk write protected on the one card it recognized and simply dosen,t see any of the others i baught the cf adapter from amikit but hate 2 others that give the same results

Specs for the a 600 are 4 gig cf hard disk form amikit 68020 CPU upgrade with 4 mg fast ram
2 Meg chip ram and VGA scan-doubler and flicker fixer all supplied by amikit .


San-disk extreme 8 Gigabyte CF card not working A600
Kodak 4 Mb CF card working Amiga A600
Kodak 512 MB CF card Not working A600
Dane electric 4Gigabit CF card not working A600
Kingston 4Gigabit CF card not working A600

[ChrisUnionNJ]

I tried this just for the hell of it and was surprised it
worked in the PCMCIA A Lexar Pro 300x 8GB UDMA..

[TEOL]

It would be amazing if someone can test one of these bad boy CF Readers out with a working card of course to see if this works as a good RAM solution in an AMIGA which wasn't fitted with an accelerator yet and may not have to neither too if this type of dual RAM/Reader solution works in an AMIGA.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TRANSCEND-F...rds=pcmcia+ram

If it doesn't work in an AMIGA oh well but it is an amazing cheap solution for the RAM required to work every software out there without extra expensive hardware so it's a cheap solution if it works that is.

Looks really slick and not bolgey too just like my current unknown Chinese writing branded card reader with no RAM which does work in the form factor look department and does work in the AMIGA.

[idrougge]

You can't use flash memory as RAM. No machine can do that.

[LoneWolf]

On my Amiga A1200 Lexar Professional 1G works as IDE but freezes Amiga as PCMCIA