-A4000D CDROM Drive Recognizing problem

[Matt_H]

Sounds like nonsense.

There are 2 issues with CD drives on 4000 desktops. The first is that it must be a very "shallow" drive. If it's too long, it'll hang out the front of the case.

The second issue is that the driver for the IDE controller (scsi.device) in the 3.0 and 3.1 ROMs can't recognize ATAPI devices like CD drives. You'll need a third-party replacement driver. This can be atapi.device from the IDEFix package or asim_atapi.device from the AsimCDFS package. There might be others as well.

If you don't already have one, you'll need a CD filesystem - AsimCDFS,  CacheCDFS, and AmiCDFS are the common ones.

[Matt_H]

You know, some people said the same A4000 recognize if some CDROM unitwas installed from A4000 Startup menu, without any driver, and allegedly the problem is becouse the CDROM drive its not supported by the Amiga.
I haved IDEFix package or asim_atapi.device from the AsimCDFS package but not work--

AsimCDFS can supposedly make itself reset resident, which would allow a CD drive to be selected from Early Startup, but I've never gotten it to work.

Jumper your hard drive to master and the CD drive to slave. Run the AsimCDFS installer again (3.10 is the last version).