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@pulchart pulchart released this 01 Aug 19:15
v20260827-dev
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Summary

Pre-release for testing. v20260827-dev of the compactflash driver and supporting tools for Amiga 600/1200.

What is new

This pre-release marks a new major version, compactflash.device 2.0. It adds DOS-time automount for hotplugged cards (on by default, configurable via ENV:cfd.prefs), with boot and automount bringup split into a new compactflash.automount module. Partition scanning moves onto the new standalone ptable.library, a single scanner shared with fat95 that publishes partition.resource; the new lsptres tool lists it.

Components in this release

  • compactflash.device 2.0-dev (27.08.2026) (new)
  • compactflash.automount 2.0-dev (27.08.2026) (new)
  • ptable.library 2.0-dev (27.08.2026) (new)
  • CFInfo 1.37 (11.01.2026)
  • pcmciaspeed 1.36 (02.01.2026)
  • pcmciacheck 2.0 (06.08.2026) (new)
  • lsptres 1.0-dev (27.08.2026) (new)

Changes

CompactFlash Driver

  • Automount. Hotplugged cards mount automatically at DOS time, on by default; disable with AUTOMOUNT 0 in the new ENV:cfd.prefs config file. Removing a card fully unmounts all supported filesystems by default (UNMOUNT <names> restricts it, UNMOUNT NONE keeps the handlers). Boot and automount bringup is split into a separate compactflash.automount module.

Write these to ENVARC:cfd.prefs so they persist across reboots. Edit ENV:cfd.prefs directly for an immediate change without rebooting. A sample ENVARC/cfd.prefs ships in the archive.

Example ENV:cfd.prefs for hot-plugged FAT cards:

AUTOMOUNT 1
UNMOUNT FAT
CONTROL_FAT +q

Keeps automount on, fully unmounts only FAT volumes when a card is pulled (FFS/SFS/PFS keep their handler for instant reattach), and passes fat95's quiet +q option to FAT mounts.

To keep the pre-2.0 behaviour instead (no automount, handlers kept across removal):

AUTOMOUNT 0
UNMOUNT NONE

Disables automount, so partitions mount only via your own DEVS:DOSDrivers/ entries as before, and keeps every filesystem handler on card removal (the native AmigaOS removable-media behaviour) rather than fully unmounting.

On-disk automount via LoadModule (AmigaOS 3.x), added to your user-startup:

LoadModule LIBS:compactflash.automount LIBS:ptable.library DEVS:compactflash.device L:fat95

The FAT filesystem is selectable as example use:

DOSTYPE_FAT 0x4D534400`
HANDLER_FAT L:CrossDOSFileSystem

mounts FAT cards with CrossDOS instead of fat95;

HANDLER_FAT L:fat95

alone loads fat95 from disk when it is not resident.

Makes the modules resident and reboots, so hotplug and automount work from disk without a custom ROM. Cold-boot autoboot straight off a CF card still needs the modules in a Kickstart ROM.

See:

Partition Table library

Unified partition scanning. One scanner parses RDB, MBR, GPT, and flat (whole-disk) partition tables and publishes every partition into a shared partition.resource, now used by both compactflash.device and fat95 instead of each carrying its own. The new lsptres tool lists the resource. (ptable.library and lsptres are bundled in this archive but released as a separate project at amigaos-ptable.)

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