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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Acill on November 17, 2002, 02:00:27 AM

Title: AsimCDFS to CacheCDFS
Post by: Acill on November 17, 2002, 02:00:27 AM

I've been using AsimCDFS for years and want to give Cache a try if its worth it.  How can i get it working and safely remove Asim?

Title: Re: AsimCDFS to CacheCDFS
Post by: KennyR on November 17, 2002, 02:21:15 AM

AFAIR, you can do it by moving your old CD0 dosdriver to SYS:Storage/DOSDrivers and copy the cachecdfs one into its place (or use the installer). If you don't like Cache, just copy the old one back. It's simple. :-)

Title: Re: AsimCDFS to CacheCDFS
Post by: Acill on November 17, 2002, 03:06:33 AM

Well its not that simple. Asim mounts its driver to the RAM drive and keeps it there at start up.
I've tried to put CD0 in devs and it just refuses to boot my system, so I need more advice.

Title: Re: AsimCDFS to CacheCDFS
Post by: SilvrDrgn on November 17, 2002, 03:28:53 AM

Where's the driver loaded??  I would install CacheCDFS and then remove the Asim drivers.

Title: Re: AsimCDFS to CacheCDFS
Post by: on November 17, 2002, 10:19:48 AM

Quote

Acill wrote:
Well its not that simple. Asim mounts its driver to the RAM drive and keeps it there at start up.
I've tried to put CD0 in devs and it just refuses to boot my system, so I need more advice.

If it's mounting it to RAM:, look in ENVARC: for some ASIM stuff and move it out of there, or check the startup-sequence or user-startup to see if it's executing something in there.

Title: Re: AsimCDFS to CacheCDFS
Post by: RexxMast on November 17, 2002, 10:56:15 AM

I think you will find yourself going back to AsimCDFS very quickly. CacheCDFS is as basic as it gets. It is basically on the CD to be able to install the AmigaOS.

It reads CDs only, and you will find it is not even in the same ballpark as AsimCDFS. For example try to copy an audio track off a CD to one of your hard drives with CacheCDFS. You cannot do it, however AsimCDFS will
copy the track.

Again CacheCDFS is as basic as it gets, while AsimCDFS is a full featured CD filesystem.

regards,

Title: Re: AsimCDFS to CacheCDFS
Post by: Acill on November 17, 2002, 03:03:50 PM

Thanks for the advice everyone. I decided cache sucks and went back to ASIM.

Title: Re: AsimCDFS to CacheCDFS
Post by: Mad-Matt on November 17, 2002, 04:57:14 PM

AsimCDFS is old hat. CacheCDFS is the current best CDFS atm, developed by IDEFIX auther.

your right about cachecdfs being in a diferent ballpark, but thats due to AsimCDFS being lade to rest long ago.

So what you cant drag audio to the hd, ill use a riping and mp3 encoder if i cared for it.
What you do get with CacheCDFS is Speed. Of course you may need to optimise cache settings to suite you requirments.
Joilet support, Multivolume support (very handy) full msdos name support and implemented in totaly os freindly way. Very far from basic id say, quite a few options to keep ya going.