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Title: help with cd rom on A1200
Post by: technium on June 17, 2006, 04:36:14 PM

Hi
I have abit of a strange setup. I have an IDE to SCSI cable connected to the HD connection on the A1200 board. The SCSI cable has 2 connections, one which has a SCSI 540mb HD and has OS3.1 installed and works fine, the other ive connected a cd rom drive to it but cant get the A1200 to recognise it as a drive, any ideas how I can do this, do I need drivers or anything?
thanks in advance.
     

Title: Re: help with cd rom on A1200
Post by: Wayne on June 17, 2006, 05:12:39 PM

get here the best amiga software for cdroms:
install it ...if fail to recognize your rare cdrom....sure there are not solution

http://main.aminet.net/disk/misc/IDEfix97.lha

bye,Laser

Title: Re: help with cd rom on A1200
Post by: technium on June 17, 2006, 06:27:37 PM

thanks but it says its only a demo :(

Title: Re: help with cd rom on A1200
Post by: leirbag28 on June 17, 2006, 06:49:09 PM

@technium

technium wrote:

I have an IDE to SCSI cable connected to the HD connection on the A1200 board
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 hmmm, I dont think that is possible, as the Hardrive connector on the A1200 is IDE, not SCSI.............I have never heard of it being possible to convert SCSI to IDE via a cable.................but anyway.....what you are probably doing is converting regular 3.5 CDROM or Hardrive IDE, to Laptop type IDE connector which is what the A1200 has and the A600


although if I am not mistaken......in Commodore's wonderful wisdom, the IDE port is controlled by scsi.device  which is probably really IDE but named SCSI..............

Title: Re: help with cd rom on A1200
Post by: technium on June 17, 2006, 06:55:41 PM

yeah thats the cable I meant sorry.

Ive found idefix but it says its only a demo, does anyone have a more permenant fix?

thanks

Title: Re: help with cd rom on A1200
Post by: Thomas on June 17, 2006, 07:11:42 PM

http://www.vesalia.de/e_idemax97.htm

Bye,
Thomas