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Compact Flash won't boot

Postby RJH_MUSIC » Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:44 pm

I have another problem now. While I am dealing with replacing the Aztec Power Supply, I thought I would convert the HD to a Compact Flash Card. For some reason, I am not able to read the HDD when it is plugged into my Windows 10 PC but I can read it on my MAC. When connecting the HDD to PC, I get the connection tone and then repeatedly get the disconnecting tone, So I cloned the HD Mackie OS 5.1 to a Utra 8 Gig Comact flash card. Verified that all the files and hidden files are there. Put it in my d8b CPU and I get through BOIS but it hangs up on Verifying DMA Pool.... and the OS never loads.

What am I doing wrong. I even tried to format the CF card to 4000MB but nothing.
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Re: Compact Flash won't boot

Postby RJH_MUSIC » Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:45 pm

Is it possible that the CF card is too fast?? I did buy an Ultra model.
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Re: Compact Flash won't boot

Postby Bruce Graham » Sat Feb 01, 2020 6:11 am

Hey RJ;

I could never get the CF to work on my d8b's.

I have old motherboards and came to the conclusion that it is not recognized by the BIOS therefore will not work.

Not sure if this is true, but on 2 CPU's that I have have, this is what happens.

There is a tread in here on this subject. I would attach it but don't know how to do that.

Both my d8b's are down with problems that may be the PS, I am waiting to see how things work out for you!

Good luck with the new PS.

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Re: Compact Flash won't boot

Postby Steam Radio » Sat Feb 01, 2020 2:17 pm

Not sure if this will help and you've probably seen this many times but here is the link to the PDF regarding the procedure to cloning the D8B to a CF from the database, I found it extremely helpful

http://www.sonido-7.com/d8b/files/userguides/Mackie-d8b-Macrium.pdf

Original article here

http://www.sonido-7.com/d8b/tpis.html#Post21
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Re: Compact Flash won't boot

Postby arjepsen » Sat Feb 01, 2020 2:53 pm

First: which motherboard do you have? Like Bruce said, it seems the older one's bios doesnt work for this.
second: if you have the newer motherboard, you could try using the image I made of a newly installed 5.1 system.
Look here:
http://www.sonido-7.com/d8b/tpis.html#Post24
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Re: Compact Flash won't boot

Postby RJH_MUSIC » Sun Feb 02, 2020 1:26 am

I have the newer motherboard. I actually got it to work I was very surprised but here's what I did. I do not know why but two days ago when I plug the hard drive into an IDE converter cable into a USB port in my Windows computer it would not be recognized. So I had cloned the drive using carbon copy cloner in my Mac and I could not boot with that. Last night just for the heck of it I thought I would try it again and to my surprise my Windows computer recognized the hard drive. I quickly plugged a Kingston 8GB CF card into another USB port and I cloned the hard drive to it. To my surprise at work great. The only other thing I did was formatted the 8GB CF card to 4gb.

Thanks for all your help. See my ther thread on the continuing power supply problem that I'm about to post which I also think I have solved.

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Re: Compact Flash won't boot

Postby madcarb1 » Sat Feb 15, 2020 2:45 am

i did the mod and it works well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPXgiqdM7Dw
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Re: Compact Flash won't boot

Postby captainamerica » Wed Feb 19, 2020 3:40 am

I used Mud Duck Music for the last 2 years with no issues (~$60)
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Re: Compact Flash won't boot

Postby madcarb1 » Fri Feb 21, 2020 10:15 am

well i bought a cf ide adaptor on ebay ($5) and a cf card ($10).
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