Hello and Merry Christmas everyone,
I just received my new internal MyIDE kit (thanks Steve!), and I'm having an issue with an IDE adapter and CF card that I'm trying to initialize. The CF card is a 128MB CF card from Kingston, and the adapter is the same one that others have reported using. This is my first attempt at using them with MyIDE, so the CF card is currently PC-formatted.
I hold down OPTION to boot into BASIC and type "BYE" to start FDISK. After a second or two, FDISK attempts to read the disk and apparently crashes, dumping me back into BASIC with an "Error 26." I'm able to initialize a conventional IDE hard drive, so I'm certain the MyIDE kit itself is working. I've also tried using the adapter with external power and power from IDE Pin 20.
At the bottom of
this thread, mr-atari mentions a fix for a bug that corrected an issue with the "start-up on a new CF-card/IDE-drive." Is this the error that I'm experiencing, and does the MyIDE kit I bought already have the bug-fixed software (I would assume that it does since it's brand new)? Also, in
this thread, mr-atari mentions a procedure for cleaning a new CF card, but the topic he linked to that documented the procedure doesn't exist anymore, and I can't seem to find it anywhere else. Does anyone know what this procedure is? I'd like to get the CF card working if I can; if not, I'll probably pick up a Transcend IDE flash module instead.
Thanks in advance for your help, and I apologize if this question has already been answered elsewhere.