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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Astra Dan on March 01, 2011, 09:48:34 PM
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Hi guys.
I have an A2000 with a A2091 (with 2Mb fast RAM) running a 50M SCSI hard drive that boots to WB 2 quite nicely. I have had a 2x speed SCSI CD-ROM drive plugged in for years that's never been recognised by the system. I have just got hold of the A2091 Install disk, but not looked at it yet. I can transfer files and disk images from a PC to the A2000 using Amiga Explorer with no problems.
Basically, could someone explain as near step by step as possible how I would get the system to see the CD-ROM drive? Is it possible to get it to boot from it or does it always need drivers from inside WB first?
Many thanks for any replies.
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Hi guys.
I have an A2000 with a A2091 (with 2Mb fast RAM) running a 50M SCSI hard drive that boots to WB 2 quite nicely. I have had a 2x speed SCSI CD-ROM drive plugged in for years that's never been recognised by the system. I have just got hold of the A2091 Install disk, but not looked at it yet. I can transfer files and disk images from a PC to the A2000 using Amiga Explorer with no problems.
Basically, could someone explain as near step by step as possible how I would get the system to see the CD-ROM drive? Is it possible to get it to boot from it or does it always need drivers from inside WB first?
Many thanks for any replies.
well first of all got have it connected to power source then connected to scsi cable
set jumper id to number higher than your hard drive . have termintaion on if its the last physical scsi device on the chain.
boot your machine check to see if light on front scsi drive is flicking before the machine fully boots to wb should be slight delay .
download idefix97 of the aminet and run find device after you installed it fully to your hard drive
get back to me after these steps
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Thanks for that, I'll do that.
Forgot to say it's powered up, the access lights come on and it appears to spin the CD up when the Amiga is booting, but it's not visable in WB.
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You need a CD Filesystem installed. Look for AsimCDFS, AmiCDFS, CacheCDFS, or BabelCDFS.
You won't be able to boot from CD.
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@ Astra Dan
Thanks for catching that. It's my HAM post :)
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Thanks Matt. Hey look, your reply to me was your 4096th post. Kinda cool.
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download idefix97 of the aminet and run find device after you installed it fully to your hard drive
get back to me after these steps
How will he use idefix97? This is a SCSI interface. Does idefix97 improve SCSI?
@ Astra Dan
If you have OS 2.x, AmiCDFS might be your only free option. It's on Aminet.
AsimCDFS is a little better (it handles long file names on Windows CD better) and comes with a CD player and Kodak PhotoCD ability. It was (still is?) commercial software. It can still be found on the web, too.
CacheCDFS comes with latter versions of the OS, but it always crashed my system.
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Thanks for that, gives me a couple of options.
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Hi guys.
I have an A2000 with a A2091 (with 2Mb fast RAM) running a 50M SCSI hard drive that boots to WB 2 quite nicely. I have had a 2x speed SCSI CD-ROM drive plugged in for years that's never been recognised by the system. I have just got hold of the A2091 Install disk, but not looked at it yet. I can transfer files and disk images from a PC to the A2000 using Amiga Explorer with no problems.
Basically, could someone explain as near step by step as possible how I would get the system to see the CD-ROM drive? Is it possible to get it to boot from it or does it always need drivers from inside WB first?
Many thanks for any replies.
Also, you need a later revision ROM chip on the A2091 for it to work with removable media devices, if I remember correctly. You can usually find someone to sell you a revision 7.0 A2091 ROM here on Amiga.org or burn one for you for about $25.
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Oh do I? That's a pain. Thanks for the info.
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Hi bit of a thread update. I have a Gotek drive I could hook up to the 2000 to transfer files.
Do I need a later revision ROM 7 in the A2091?
Thanks!
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Gotek is a floppy device and doesn't connect to the 2091 or any scsi controller.
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Also, you need a later revision ROM chip on the A2091 for it to work with removable media devices, if I remember correctly. You can usually find someone to sell you a revision 7.0 A2091 ROM here on Amiga.org or burn one for you for about $25.
I'm using a SCSI CD-ROM drive just fine with my 6.6 ROM'd A2091...
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I'm using a SCSI CD-ROM drive just fine with my 6.6 ROM'd A2091...
This is a very old thread, but AFAIR 7.0 was required to use devices with LUN's (like SCSI card readers). Mechy or someone like that would know for sure. ;)
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Gotek is a floppy device and doesn't connect to the 2091 or any scsi controller.
Sorry I meant I could use a gotek to get files from the internet onto the 2000.
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I'm using a SCSI CD-ROM drive just fine with my 6.6 ROM'd A2091...
Could you tell me how you got it to work please? :)
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Could you tell me how you got it to work please? :)
Just get ASIMcdfs 3.10 if possible, it will be your easiest,turn key install of a cd filesystem and will work with your combination fine.
you just need to know what device you have the cdrom set to during the install.
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This is a very old thread, but AFAIR 7.0 was required to use devices with LUN's (like SCSI card readers). Mechy or someone like that would know for sure. ;)
LUNs worked on older roms mostly,i think rev7 was bug fixes etc but its always good to have the latest roms. the 6.6 rom and up was pretty good. It does amaze me so many people are still using old buggy roms instead of upgrading, they are so cheap and or you can make your own eproms nearly free if you have the burner.
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It does amaze me so many people are still using old buggy roms instead of upgrading, they are so cheap and or you can make your own eproms nearly free if you have the burner.
:hammer:
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LUNs worked on older roms mostly,i think rev7 was bug fixes etc but its always good to have the latest roms. the 6.6 rom and up was pretty good. It does amaze me so many people are still using old buggy roms instead of upgrading, they are so cheap and or you can make your own eproms nearly free if you have the burner.
I have a burner, could you point me in the right direction please? :-)
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I have a burner, could you point me in the right direction please? :-)
try this for the 7.0roms:
eab.abime.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=16984&d=1214765066
makecd 3.2D is latest burning software i think, it can be found here:
http://www.estamos.de/makecd/
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LUNs worked on older roms mostly,i think rev7 was bug fixes etc but its always good to have the latest roms. the 6.6 rom and up was pretty good. It does amaze me so many people are still using old buggy roms instead of upgrading, they are so cheap and or you can make your own eproms nearly free if you have the burner.
6.6 roms had no support for over 1GB partitions iirc,using sfs or pfs got around this.