ACA500+ Compact Flash Card HD Setup Help. No HD1 found!

[lemonje]

I recently purchased myself an ACA500+ accelerator card for my original A500-R6, and I purchase a 4GB Transcend CF card to make a boot disk.

I'm currently having trouble when it comes to preparing the flash card partitions. No matter what I do my Amiga will only see HD0 after preparing the flash drive. Even though I also setup a HD1 and HD2 (both under the 2GB limit).
In all the videos I've seen everybody seems to have no issues with this, so what do people think is wrong here? After the reboot only HD0 is found.

Please Note: I do not have WinUAE so I'm trying to configure my flash card using the features found on the ACA500+ and a physical A500-R6.

PS. does anybody know of a step by step guide for setting up a boot drive with WHDLoad friendly features?

Many thanks for any assistance provided.
Cheers

Steve

 

[drpugh]

I have done installations with the installer built in installer, my own disks/adfs and with WinUAE but have just recently seen what the Installer V0.8 update adds (which includes large CF support).

Have you tried doing the updates to the ACA500Plus as it adds 64 bit compatible filesystem? http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/ACA500plus_Firmware

I haven't used the latest installer but just looked for a video on YouTube as I had heard there was at least one showing it and found this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBKVKsO6brg.

My previous attempts have been to use my install disks, pfs3 and following a guide on installing using WinUAE but ignoring the irrelevant bits. Though I am probably going to have a try using the new installer now I know about it.

Hope this helps.

 

[lemonje]

Many thanks for your help I did some more research into my problem and discovered that when I type info in cli, I noticed that DH1 and DH2 were listed even know there was no disk icon on the workbench. This led me to look for more information on the message no disk present.

I then found this command provided by another Amiga user killpart DH1: 0
When I tried this on my CompactFlash card the disk was suddenly available for formatting and now everything is okay

Many thanks for your time and the links .

Steve