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Title: Can't get CD-rom to work with WinUAE and OS3.9
Post by: AmigaEd on March 04, 2005, 04:33:29 AM

Greetings,
I'm not having much luck at getting my CD-Rom to work with WinUAE and OS3.9

Do I need to add a mountlist entry or something like that?

I looked at the WinUAE log and it shows my CD-Rom (PC Drive D:) as being unit 0. I found a guide that says I need to select the uaescsi.device and enter the unit number. Problem is I'm not sure where it needs to be entered in. do they mean in WinUAE of in some prefs under OS3.9 somewhere?

Thank you,
AmigaEd

Title: Re: Can't get CD-rom to work with WinUAE and OS3.9
Post by: Trev on March 04, 2005, 04:44:40 AM

Well, if you installed OS 3.9, it must have been working at some point (unless you didn't use the standard installation, which means you may or may not have a working CacheCDFS installation).

You can open Devs:/DOSDrivers/CD0 (or Devs:/DOSDrivers/EMERGENCYCD) in a text editor (e.g. excute "ed Devs:/DOSDrivers/CD0") and set these values:

Device = uaescsi.device
Unit = 0

UAEscsi.device support must be enabled in WinUAE under Settings | Host | Misc. If the CD is showing up in the log, then it's probably already enabled.

If CacheCDFS isn't working, or if you don't want to overexert your drive's laser mechanism, you can get AmiCDFS from Aminet. It works well with WinUAE and the installation instructions are pretty straightforward.

Trev

Title: Re: Can't get CD-rom to work with WinUAE and OS3.9
Post by: AmigaEd on March 05, 2005, 02:59:06 AM

@Trev

I think that I've hosed things up totally.

I couldn't get CacheCDFS to work, so I tried to get amiCDFS working. I tried to follow the install instructions for amiCDFS as closely as possible and still couldn't get that to work.

My AmiSys1.7 install works great I can see the cd-rom just fine with that.

I set the lines in cd0 as shown below but it still didn't work.

Device = uaescsi.device
Unit = 0

Could you maybe post an example of the cd0 file?

Thanks,
AmigaEd

Title: Re: Can't get CD-rom to work with WinUAE and OS3.9
Post by: Trev on March 05, 2005, 06:13:22 AM

I use the CD0 that comes with AmiCDFS:

/* $VER: CD0 2.40 (14.12.97)
 *
 * CD-ROM filesystem mount entry
 */

Device      = uaescsi.device
Unit     = 0
FileSystem  = L:AmiCDFS
Flags    = 0
BlocksPerTrack = 32
BlockSize   = 2048
Reserved = 0
LowCyl      = 0
HighCyl     = 11000
Surfaces = 1
Buffers     = 64
BufMemType  = 1
Mask            = 0x7fffffff
GlobVec     = -1
Priority = 10
DosType     = 0x43444653
StackSize   = 600
Mount    = 1

Control     = "LC LN BL=8 FB=32"

/* Control field template:
 *
 * LC=LOWERCASE/S,CS=CASESENSE/S,
 * HF=HFSFIRST/S,LN=LONGNAMES/S,TD=TRACKDISK/S,
 * BL=BUFFERLINES/K/N,FB=FILEBUFFERS/K/N,
 * DC=DISKCHANGE/K/N,MT=MOTORTIME/K/N,
 * SD=STARTDELAY/K/N,TDC=TDCHANGE/S,
 * TOSHIBA/S,OLDMODE/S
 */

Title: Re: Can't get CD-rom to work with WinUAE and OS3.9
Post by: AmigaEd on March 06, 2005, 07:47:59 AM

@Trev,
Thanks for the help. It seems that I managed to NOT copy AmiCDFS into the L: drawer. Once I got it copied into there all was well.

I'm still not sure why CacheCDFS wouldn't work. I guess I'll have to research that some more. Probably not really that important though since AmiCDFS works fine.

Anyway, Thank you again.

Regards,
AmigaEd