Touble getting Falcon to see CF card

[Grizaptimus]

Hey there everyone.  So I have been attempting to get my falcon up and running again.  I set up a CF card with a 512MB C partition and 3 1024MB partitions and Installed HDDRIVER 11 to the C drive.  Now this all works in Hatari, So I dd it over to a 4GB CF card and plug it into my falcon, and nothing.  During my troubleshooting I took the CF card from my Amiga 600, imaged it and wrote it out to the same CF card I tried in the falcon.  It worked flawlessly.  I'm sure that there is some obvious step that I am missing here.  Does anyone have an Idea where I might have gone wrong?

[Chri O.]

You know exactly what TOS version you have in the Falcon ?

TOS 4.02 can only support 512 MB max partition size.

Run this: SysInfo

Maybe you need to enable the byte swap for (16bit) IDE drive bus.

I'm guessing this is TOS DOS partition setup ?

 

[Grizaptimus]

So turns out that I was running 4.02 and not 4.04 like I thought I was.   So I made a new HD 512MB image just to speed things up. Took several attempts but finally Success!!  It turns out that I had to turn off byte swap

 

Thank you so much Chri!

[Grizaptimus]

After some further testing.  It seems that with HDDRIVER 11 at least, TOS 4.02 can support partitions of 1GB even as a boot volume. 

[ParanoidLittleMan]

11 hours ago, Grizaptimus said:

After some further testing.  It seems that with HDDRIVER 11 at least, TOS 4.02 can support partitions of 1GB even as a boot volume. 

This is not what I heard from couple experienced Falcon users.  They say that TOS 4.02 supports max 512 MB partitions.

In any case, you should avoid same mistake what MugUK did when tested some things - not filling partition with data. Error was that when partition got filled to some size (like 32 MB - test was done long time ago, when it was not so little, and it was no first partition) problems started. Actually later files went not in free space, but to begin of partition, so destroyed files which were there.  So, I recommend before coming with conclusion to write some longer files (just to make it less mouse work). When reaching over 512 MB - and that may happen when sum of files is less than it , so better look free space indicated - then need to check files at start of partition, so those written first. Maybe to put there some executables - then check for damage is easy . It will be useful for community too.

 

Btw. I don't see as good way to do it with Hatari, then write image to CF card. Usual way is to do partitioning on Falcon self, and SW is made with that in mind.

Maybe you have problem with floppies, drive, transferring programs to them ... There is driver SW package with which can do all it on Falcon, without floppy drive, disk.