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[TheGoose]

I got some Scandisk CFs and they are recognized but not to the full capacity. I'm using an A1200 with 3.1 install floppy, using HDtoolBox.

The CF I hope to put back in my A1000 after formatting. The one I'm dealing with now is a 256MB CF that only is seen as 163MB.

I looked for another post but could not find it.

Thanks for any pointers

[Marcb]

Not sure if this will help you or not but the way I approached it was to use Winuae to partition it and format the partitions then installed it onto the 1200 and it recognises the full 4gb.

(make sure you launch Winuae
with : "-disableharddrivesafetycheck" option!)

Good Luck,
Marcb

[rkauer]

Or look at this thread here in A.org...

[TheGoose]

Ah sweet success. I forgot something, not the Amiga wiz I use to be. I needed to goto HDToolBox, and as the CF is listed as 'Uknown' click 'Change Drive Type' and then hit the 'Read Configuration' button. Duh.

Ok, then it read all the bits the right way, 'Save Changes' and then you are off to partition it. Although, in my case I had to make the 3.1 Install disk write-able, to save the changes, and didn't like doing that. But Read Configuration worked great.

Other notes, I got the CF understood on my ADIDE board too. There, I needed to boot useing the ADIDE software disk, and from shell run the 'ideconfig' command 1st! It understood everything. Then move onto the 'ICD Formatter' program. Disappoint though, I'm still wondering if ADIDE interface understands both master / slave channels ? Anyone know about that?

REMINDER PIC:

[img align=left]http://www.amiga-magazin.de/magazin/a08-98/ratgeber/bildgross2.gif[/img]

[cv643d]

Dont forget to set maxtransfer to the right number.

Before I knew about that I got all kind of weird errors in programs!

[Xamiche]

I thought I'd tack my question onto the back of this thread, rather than creating a new one for this little question. I'm currently formatting a 5GB CF Micro Drive in my Amiga 600HD. The thing is, it's taken the better part of the last 3 hours to format half of a 1GB partition. This seems pretty slow to me. Is this a normal speed? Are CF MicroDrives slower than 2.5" HDs?

[Amigoat]

I had a similar problem with a 4 gig CF in my A1200. I had first tried a borrowed 512 meg unit and it formatted to full capacity with HDToolBox. Then later when I had the 4 gig unit I tried again but only got 512 mb.

I then made a a new copy of my original 3.1 install disk and got 4 gigs without any problem.

Was something being carried over from the installation of the smaller card?