I have 3.0, but I don't have the OS disks. I seem to have a floppy working on both PC and Amiga now though. Just had to click PC0 instead of DF0.

That's because you have CrossDOS running and mounted. Good job! It's painful to transfer stuff by floppy but in the meantime it will do.

boomlinde wrote:

If you format a DD floppy on a PC to 720k, you can read it on Amiga using CrossDOS (which should be included on the OS disks if you have those). Usage details are here.

Not if he has WB3.1. Only 3.0 has CrossDOS

I have 3.0, but I don't have the OS disks. I seem to have a floppy working on both PC and Amiga now though. Just had to click PC0 instead of DF0.

Awww. AHX it is then.

Not if he has WB3.1. Only 3.0 has CrossDOS

You should check this option.

Also: HivelyTracker does NOT run on anything but an 060@100mHZ or PowerPC, so forget about it, use AHX, or wait for the massively expensive upgrade.

Another unrelated tip: Prepare the CF card in WInUAE. If you put the card in a normal card reader you can mount it as a hard drive from WinUAE, format it, install the OS (even in turbo mode if you wish) and quickly put the software you want on it.

In the meantime... I was worried about the constant clicking noise coming from my Amiga's floppy drive, but some searching reveals that it is apparently normal behavior. Now attempting to format a floppy previously used in an Atari.

EDIT: Ugh. And now the floppy won't work on my PC, of course. This is why I need a PCMCIA SD reader! XD
I was looking forward to playing around with Hively Tracker tonight, but I guess I'll just have to wait for the SD/CF gear.
Man... Atari floppies work with PCs! >:(

EDIT: Someone had told me on another forum that  "you just need to install the FAT95 filesystem and PCMCIA card driver" on the Amiga, and I just read on this page that "FAT16 and FAT32 filesystems are supported by the FAT95 filesystem." So I think I've answered my own question, but can someone else say it, just to be sure? The person on the other forum was talking about CF cards though, not SD or SDHC, and I don't know if that matters. 4GB is probably more than enough for a transfer card anyway. 1GB is probably more than enough for a transfer card!

Regular SD cards are only available in sizes up to 4GB. Cards that are bigger than that are "SDHC", which the adapter may not be compatible with. If someone told you to avoid SDHC cards, they're probably speaking out of experience. There might also be other, Amiga-related, limitations that I'm not aware of.

I have been told that when using CF or SD cards via IDE on a stock Amiga, it is not recommended to have a drive more than 4GB, or a partition more than 2GB.

Is there a limit to drive size or partition size when using SD cards over PCMCIA? And will the slowest cheapest card also work well over PCMCIA?

RG wrote:

Please, everyone, for the love of data: use CF.

That makes no sense. WHAT is wrong with SD?

Nothing at all. I simply meant compared to hard disk drives. People go on about the life span of HDs but I've gone through at least 7 drives via IDE using various models over the last 15 years. There was even a time when my back-ups were corrupt because the Amiga I was using had been writing "bad data". I'm not a believer. Perhaps *maybe* if it just sat on a shelf for 40 years..

Switched to CF via IDE as HD and CF via PCMCIA and haven't looked back. Also don't need to worry about someone bumping a table at a show/a certain someone throwing sharp objects around.

Please, everyone, for the love of data: use CF.

That makes no sense. WHAT is wrong with SD?

The cheap, slow one will do just great. I have a generic card in my A600, which costed nothing, and works fine. As Linde said, the IDE interface is kinda slow already.

Optical media deteriorates faster than solid state cards, I think the best solution to backups is stockpiling hard drives. If well kept, they can last a loooong time (I only retired my A600's hard drive yesterday, after 17 years of faithful service, and all its data is still intact)