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Notes on getting an SDBox V2 running on an A500. The stock SD0 mountfile works unmodified — what actually matters is the card: FAT32, 4K clusters, and a partition no larger than 1GB.

The post-mortem on trying to use a 4GB card on an Oktagon 2008: an RDB wiped twice, two CF cards that would not share a bus, a DosType that turns out to be an instruction rather than an identifier, three confident diagnoses that were all wrong, and a lide.device flashing attempt that looked briefly like a bricked controller. The conclusion: on an Oktagon, do not bother with cards over 2GB.

My Amiga A500 wouldn’t notice when I changed disk images on the Gotek. I was certain it was a config setting. It was a jumper – and then it was a cable. Not one line of configuration was ever the fix.

How to run Workbench 1.3, 2.05 and 3.1 from one CompactFlash card on an A500 with a multi-Kickstart switcher — a Kickstart-detecting boot dispatcher, the partitioning rules that keep all three happy, and the 1.3-specific gotchas nobody warns you about. Includes a clear recommendation to stick to 2GB cards on the Oktagon controller, and why.