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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Robert17 on August 22, 2004, 05:57:14 PM

Title: Setting Up A CD-ROM on an A1200
Post by: Robert17 on August 22, 2004, 05:57:14 PM

Hey guys n gals, right I've got all my amiga gear out and I've got Amicdfs on my hard drive now, now about to install the squirrel scsi drivers from the disk, what do I need to do with the AmiCDFS files?

Thanks

Robert

Title: Re: Setting Up A CD-ROM on an A1200
Post by: pjhutch on August 22, 2004, 07:42:51 PM

When you install it, specify squirrelscsi.device and the SCSI ID number of the CDROM drive, this will set up the CD0 DosDriver to use your CDROM.

Title: Re: Setting Up A CD-ROM on an A1200
Post by: SamuraiCrow on August 22, 2004, 07:42:57 PM

First of all, follow the directions for installing AmiCDFS.

Second of all, edit the CD0 file in your Devs:dosdrivers/ directory so that the devicename = squirrelscsi.device or whatever it's supposed to be and set unit= where the unit number is the SCSI ID number which should NOT be 0 and possibly not 7 since that was used as an expansion port on some Macintoshes but might not be a problem on Amiga.

Title: Re: Setting Up A CD-ROM on an A1200
Post by: Robert17 on August 22, 2004, 07:50:40 PM

The copy of amicdfs I have has no directions or installation files  :-?

Title: Re: Setting Up A CD-ROM on an A1200
Post by: SamuraiCrow on August 22, 2004, 07:56:39 PM

There should have been an AmigaGuide file that came with it.  Did you download the latest version off the Aminet?

Title: Re: Setting Up A CD-ROM on an A1200
Post by: Robert17 on August 22, 2004, 07:58:48 PM

Yeah  but I'm not sure if the Un-LHA utility I used on my pc did a very good job, also I tranferred it using crossdos...

Title: Re: Setting Up A CD-ROM on an A1200
Post by: SamuraiCrow on August 22, 2004, 08:05:33 PM

I'd leave the unarchiving to the Amiga since CrossDos hacks off all the filenames to 8.3 characters.  Download LHA for Amiga (http://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/arc/LhA_e138.run) here.

Title: Re: Setting Up A CD-ROM on an A1200
Post by: cgutjahr on August 22, 2004, 08:10:59 PM

Don't extract archives under Windows. Move the wholoe archive to the Amiga and use Amiga LhA (http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find?lha.run) to extract it.

If an Archive is too big for one disk, use a split/join type program that is available for Windows and AmigaOS (like HJSplit (http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/)) to break the archive into smaller pieces before transferring it.

Title: Re: Setting Up A CD-ROM on an A1200
Post by: Robert17 on August 22, 2004, 08:14:23 PM

okie dokie it looks like AmiCDFS.Lha and Lha.run will both fit onto a floppy anyways, I'll try it later and let you guys know, not sure if it's a hardware problem either though because scsi mounter doesn't ever detect anything on the bus  :-?

Robert