I've got a dataflyer 500 ide controller on my A500. I've also bought an IDE to compact flash adapter. And I'm using a 1 gig Toshiba compact flash card.
SYBA SD-CF-IDE-A IDE to Compact Flash Adapter
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822998002My Sandisk UltraII, Extreme III, and Extreme IV 2gb cards weren't recognized by the controller. The 1 gig Toshiba bought from Sam's club works fine.
If I insert the PC-formatted card into the adapter before bootup, the amiga won't boot off the hard drive attached to the same chain. I can, however, boot off the DataFlyer Installation floppy. After going through the standard hard drive install software "DFPREP", it sets up the card and all is well. I reboot, and the card is now a regular usable amiga disk.
I'm trying to use CrossDos 7.04 to have a FAT-formatted PC card, copy amiga files to the card, then pop the card out, insert it in a reader, and access the files from the PC.
Using "configdisk" on CrossDos, the installation goes ok, until I get a "disk that is in PCC: is not formatted, would you like to format it?" Selecting YES, "format did not complete, disk is not validated" In either case (selecting yes, or no), I end up with a PCC icon on my desktop, and it can't be opened.
I also tried sticking with the amiga formatted compact flash card, copying files to the card, then ejecting it, and using my ide to compact flash adapter on my PC, and then trying to run WINUAE to mount it. But this also doesn't work, although WINUAE sees the disk, I get a "Warning: The drive safety check is active. Selected drive is not empty and non-RDB partitioned" message.
So I use hex workshop (nice hex editor for windows) to view the compact flash card, and I can't see a RDB within 16 blocks(or anywhere)
First 512 bytes: all 0x2A's
Second-Sixth 512 bytes: SLGE 0x534C4745 -- some four byte header starts off each sector.
[edit: these are definitely LSEG blocks with reverse-byte order SL->LS GE->EG]
I compared the format of the blocks with
http://lclevy.free.fr/adflib/adf_info.html#p6Definitely LSEG.
Hrrmmm..... where's my PART, RDB, etc? Maybe stored on the primary boot hard drive?
I could really use some help on how to attack this.
Thanks