cannontrodder
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I've got a 1200 booting from IDE->CF internally but just cannot seem to get an external card to be recognised. I've tried a Transcend 4GB 133x card and a SanDisk 4GB 200X card.
I grabbed the fat95 and cfd packages directly form Aminet a couple of days ago, so I know I have the latest versions. compactflash.device is in DEVS:, fat95 in L: and I dragged the CF0 device into devs/dosdrivers.
I've formatted both cards as fat32 on the smallest allocation size (but have since gone back and tried fat16 too) but I don't get any icons appearing on the workbench when I insert them. I've read so many different ideas and tips that I'm bewildered by the permutations and trying to be careful that I am not bouncing around randomly trying things without any method.
If I boot the 1200 with the PCMCIA with card already inserted, I get the timer mouse pointer for about a minute but then nothing. Double-clicking on the CF0 icon gives me the message that it is already mounted but beyond this I am getting no further.
I know there is a lot of advice saying that some cards just don't work but I don't want to just endlessly keep buying cards when I may be doing something very simple incorrectly. I'd love to even just buy a card if I had a degree of certainty that it would work!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I grabbed the fat95 and cfd packages directly form Aminet a couple of days ago, so I know I have the latest versions. compactflash.device is in DEVS:, fat95 in L: and I dragged the CF0 device into devs/dosdrivers.
I've formatted both cards as fat32 on the smallest allocation size (but have since gone back and tried fat16 too) but I don't get any icons appearing on the workbench when I insert them. I've read so many different ideas and tips that I'm bewildered by the permutations and trying to be careful that I am not bouncing around randomly trying things without any method.
If I boot the 1200 with the PCMCIA with card already inserted, I get the timer mouse pointer for about a minute but then nothing. Double-clicking on the CF0 icon gives me the message that it is already mounted but beyond this I am getting no further.
I know there is a lot of advice saying that some cards just don't work but I don't want to just endlessly keep buying cards when I may be doing something very simple incorrectly. I'd love to even just buy a card if I had a degree of certainty that it would work!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!