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CF Card Space Problem On V4

Jürgen Klöpper

Posts 6
09 Jun 2020 10:31


My 32GB CF-Card in my Vampire V4 shows two drives

System: with size 204.783K
Work: with size 204.783K

How can I assess to the rest of the CF-Card space?

Sys/Tools/HDToolBox doesn't work.

Can someone help me please?


Claudio Guglielmotti
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 185
10 Jun 2020 10:38


It is normal, because it is a perfect copy of Cotter's Compact Flash wich is only 4Gb.
If you want increase the space, you need to correct the HDD geometry with a tool like this
EXTERNAL LINK


Pedro Cotter
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 308
10 Jun 2020 10:52


Nop. The official distribution is not mine.


Tim Noyce

Posts 156
16 Aug 2020 17:32


If you are using AROS, the CF card won't show unless you add ATA.DEVICE after launching HDToolBox. It uses SCSI.DEVICE by default, which can't won't see it.

Here's one person's suggestion on how to get access to the remainder of the data on the CF card:

The CF card with the bootable AROS image has two partitions, System: and Work:. These take up around 200MB, which means you’ve got a lot of unused space on the CF card. To access it, you should get the fixhddsize tool. UnLHA it, run it, enter ata.device as your device, and let it fix things for you.

Now launch System:Tools/HDToolBox. And click “Add Entry”. In the Devices dialog, enter ata.device. Now click that device in the “Changed Name” list, then double-click on the entry that appears (for me, it’s SDCFXS-0 32G...). You’ll see two entries, UDH0: (that’s your System: partition) and UDH1: (Work:). Add an entry here, selecting the unused space. When you’ve done that, save changes, close HDToolBox, and reboot. You’ll see your new drive appear in Workbench, as something like UDH2:NDOS. Right click that, choose Format, then Quick Format. ..

I'm not 100% certain about that, as my understanding is that FFS (FastFileSystem) has issues with drives > 8g and volumes > 4Gb, so you may need to switch the file system on the new partition to SFS (SmartFileSystem) or PFS .. I believe AROS ships with the PFS file system handler (in devs:).

Hope that helps.


Zeus SH

Posts 22
17 Aug 2020 14:34


Not entirely relevant with base question, but a CF related issue.
Anyone have experience using V4SA with two CF2IDE adapters? One master and one slave jumperable adapter on a single ide cable. Does it work?

posts 5