Slightly OT but can I ask why everyone seems to prefer Compact Flash cards over SDHC cards?

You can buy SD/SDHC cards very cheaply even in corner shops, yet hardly anyone seems to sell CF cards and they cost more too.

I myself have an SDHC to 44pin IDE adapter in my A1200 on the internal IDE and an SDHC to 40pin IDE adapter fited to an IDE to SCSI converter in my A4000/CS060 and both are very fast and reliable.

From Ye Olde Wiki:  

Compared to other portable storage

 

• CF cards are considered more rugged and durable to many "in the  field" photographic shocks, impacts and accidents. CompactFlash cards  are capable of withstanding more physical damage in comparison to other,  flimsier designs.[citation needed]
  

• Due to their compatibility with IDE/ATA they are used in many  embedded systems as solid-state drives. In early 2008 the CFA  demonstrated CompactFlash cards with a built in SATA interface.[33] Several companies make adapters to allow CF cards to be connected to PCI, IDE, 44-pin laptop mini-IDE, and SATA connections,[34] allowing a CF card to act as a solid-state drive with virtually any operating system or BIOS, and even in a RAID configuration.
  

• CompactFlash does not have any built in DRM or cryptographic features like on some USB flash drives  and other card formats. The lack of such features contributes to the  openness of the standard since other memory card standards with such  features are subject to restrictive licensing agreements.[citation needed]
  

• CF cards are available at higher storage capacities than some smaller flash memory cards.

• CompactFlash lacks the mechanical write protection switch that some other devices have, as seen in a comparison of memory cards with exception of industrial CF-card models (AC60 Turbo/ AC73 and AC75 series) made by CoreSolid Storage [1]
  

• In the case of improper insertion, a card can potentially cause  damage to the device receiving the card. However, this rarely happens as  slots are usually designed to prevent this.

• CompactFlash's large dimensions in comparison to other cards limits  its feasibility in very slim devices. The large card slot consumes  devices' valuable internal space, especially in point and shoot  digital cameras. In its favour, a CompactFlash card cannot be lost as  easily as a tiny MicroSD card, and insertion and removal may be easier  with a larger card.
  

Yes I have a 40 pin dual CF adapter in one of my A1200's, and it works  great with two CF cards, it also works with one of the cards removed.  This is a cheap adapter I bought from ebay.

I also bought a 44 pin dual CF adapter, but this resultet in a somewhat  weird behaviour in HDToolbox where the partition sizes showed the wrong  values when changed (not talking about >2GB range here). I tried this  with only one CF card attached, and I have later learned that some of  these 44 pin dual adapters requires that two CF cards are attached in order to work.

I guess that it's a bit of hit and miss with these types of  adapters, but fortunately they are not that expensive. One thing I  always look for when bying CF adapters is the possibility of configuring  them as master/slave.

I found on my amiga 1200, was to get boot with both compact flashs working in dual slot configuration,  was to leave one compact flash has fat 32 and mount it once workbench was loaded.

i duno i only see watever is set has master and if both amiga formatted dont boot