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

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

David Schmenk wrote:
> 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
> >
> > NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing!
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> >
> > "The wastebasket is our most important design
> > tool--and it's seriously underused."
>
>
> You might be fighting multiple levels of partitioning.  Try either:
>
> 1. running fdisk on the PC and wiping out the partition map

You mean that Ciderpress doesn't do raw I/Os to the card, obliterating
the PC partition map?  That would be strange...

> 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.

As I pointed out, I have no I/O on this Apple //e except the CFFA,
so, since hot swapping is not supported, I can't boot into ProDOS
and a formatting utility, then insert the adapter.

In fact, I don't have anyway of destroying the formatting except
(I thought) by overwriting the volume and its partition map with
CiderPress.

-michael

NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing!
Home page:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/

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