Re: Using CiderPress to copy a volume image to a card formatted for Windows...

[David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com>]

On Feb 12, 9:39 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> > Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>
> >> I just got a couple of SD-to-CF Type II adapters, and would like to
> >> try it out on my CFFA.
>
> >> The problem is that I can't seem to find the option to copy a recent
> >> volume backup to a new (FAT-formatted) SD card, and I don't have any
> >> other drives to allow me to run an Apple II formatting program with
> >> the (unformatted) card in the CFFA.
>
> >> I've used CiderPress to restore volume backups before, but I'm not
> >> getting the option to do that to the FAT-formatted volume.  I don't
> >> seem to have any way to "unformat" it so CiderPress will see it as
> >> a target volume.  (Or maybe I've just forgotten the magic to do the
> >> volume copy??  ;-)
>
> > "Never mind..."  ;-)
>
> > I just didn't bring myself to click on the MSDOS partition...when
> > I did, the "Load from file" option lit up plain as day.  ;-)
>
> Well, that's annoying...
>
> I sucessfully copied a 4-partition CFFA volume to the SD card, and
> verified that all is well by opening it in CiderPress both as an SD
> card and in the SD-to-CF adapter.  It's a 2GB SD card.
>
> But when I plug the adapter into the CFFA, my //e reports:
>
> "CFFA: Device missing, not formatted, or incompatible.  Ver:1.2"
>
> That's what's annoying.  ;-)
>
> I'm using an SDCF-01 SD/SDHC CF Card Adapter, made in Taiwan, no
> discernable manufacturer name.  So, apparently, there are adapters
> that won't work with the CFFA (at least V1.2).
>
> -michael
>
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You might be fighting multiple levels of partitioning.  Try either:

1. running fdisk on the PC and wiping out the partition map

2. inserting the SD card into the CFFA and formatting it on the Apple
II to wipe out the partition map.

When back into the PC, the SD card should come up as a raw device that
CiderPress can write to.

Dave...