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Troubles With SD Card In Vampire

David Wright

Posts 373
04 May 2017 15:36


I have gone through most of setup on sd card install.
My Amiga setup is 3.9 using Amikit for real install on top. ( I disabled a lot of functions.)

For Vampire SD card install I downloaded all relevant files installed.
Used HDtoolbox to install and partition with all the right parameters such as PFS03, identifiers etc.

Then I try to mound sd as next step.
It shows as sd0 and sd.info when using dir command
Change over to relevant dir and try to mount

Go to sd mount in cli and try to use giggledisk and this response:
Unable to mount amithlon.device unit 0!
Can't get pass this. There is no such device listed in Devs.

What am I missing?


Pedro Cotter
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 308
04 May 2017 15:56


David, follow this video afte Min. 12:46.
It will surely help you. I hope :-)

EXTERNAL LINK


David Wright

Posts 373
04 May 2017 23:57


Thank you Pedro, I have it working. Whether it is stable or not, we'll see.
Renaming to sd0 in devs and editing dosdriver area did the trick.

My one problem is some of my edit commands don't work. Was getting error like microgolded unknown command and also giggledisk wasn't reckonized.
Went into Dopus and edited from there.

Did a few tests, taking over to pc and copying a few files and worked back at the Amiga.

Think I will look for an extension cable to run outside computer for easy access.
Thanks again.


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
05 May 2017 05:09


FAT32 is easiest to setup, because fat95 device has partition geometry autosense.
 
Format your SD card on PC to FAT32 fileformat in normal way. Do not use any Amiga tools like HDToolBox, SDMount or Giggledisk.
 
Make sure you have:
 
  DEVS:sagasd.devive
  L:fat95
  DEVS:DOSDrivers/SD0
  DEVS:DOSDrivers/SD0.info
 
Make sure that your DEVS:DOSDrivers/SD0 mountlist uses partition geometry autosense, its contents must be like this:

              FileSystem    = l:fat95
              Unit          = 0
              Flags          = 0
              LowCyl        = 0
              HighCyl        = 0
              Surfaces      = 1
              BlocksPerTrack = 1
              BlockSize      = 512
              Buffers        = 20
              BufMemType    = 1
              BootPri        = 0
              Stacksize      = 4096
              Priority      = 5
              GlobVec        = -1
              DosType        = 0x46415401
              Device        = sagasd.device

 
Here's a tutorial for the SFS. You can calculate your SD card values from SDDiag block size info:
 
EXTERNAL LINK


David Wright

Posts 373
05 May 2017 22:49


Thanks Simo, it all checks out here.
Working good.


Marcus Sackrow

Posts 37
06 May 2017 08:39


Is there a list of compatible SD Cards?

I have a few here, but none of them work. most are just not recognized. (basically old 1/2GB noname SD) Some seem to work but when I write to it I get errors (Samsung 16GB)


Kolbjørn Barmen
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Posts 219/ 2
06 May 2017 22:02


What do you mean "not recognized "? HDToolBox?


Marcus Sackrow

Posts 37
08 May 2017 22:17


yes and also SDDiag does not show anything about this card, same behavior as no card inserted. But the card works fine in my old mobile (where it originates) and also with Linux/RasPi and Linux/x64_PC card reader.

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