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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: ajk on April 17, 2012, 04:17:22 PM
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Hey guys,
I have an A4000 and thought I would use a SATA DVD drive connected to the Deneb via an adapter. The adapter itself is recognized fine, but I'm unsure as to how I need to configure Poseidon to mount the actual drive. Do I need to make a mountlist and stick it to DosDrivers/, or should the drive be mounted automatically? At the moment when I put a disc in, the drive does spin up and appear to do something, and there is clearly some CPU load apparent in Workbench, but I never get a volume icon.
Thanks!
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Never done that, but I guess it certainly needs a device declaration in order to mount it.
For example, UMSD device (under Storage) exists for USB mass storage devices using L:Fat95 handler and usbscsi.device
I guess something equivalent using L:CacheCDFS for example and usbscsi.device (dunno if any other class creates a different device) would be ok to test.
Chris can answer better though
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It will mount as soon as you insert a readable media, as long as you have a proper filesystem in L:
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Hey guys,
I have an A4000 and thought I would use a SATA DVD drive connected to the Deneb via an adapter. The adapter itself is recognized fine, but I'm unsure as to how I need to configure Poseidon to mount the actual drive. Do I need to make a mountlist and stick it to DosDrivers/, or should the drive be mounted automatically? At the moment when I put a disc in, the drive does spin up and appear to do something, and there is clearly some CPU load apparent in Workbench, but I never get a volume icon.
Thanks!
Your first step is to make sure you have some sort of CD file-system installed. 3.9 will come with one.... I'm not sure which one I installed on my 3.1.. It may have been CacheCDFS
I don't believe you need a mountlist. in devs/dosdrivers(or possibly storage/dosdrivers which you should move to /devs/dosdrivers) you should have an icon like CD0 or CD1 or something. Select "info" on that icon and configure the tooltypes. you probably just need to set the device and device #.
I was able to get use a USB CD-ROM working with my subway. I later switched to to a SATA drive because its much faster, but you have a Denab which is really nice hardware :)
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Hey,
and thanks for the quick replies. But now I'm a bit confused, do I or do I not need a CD0 in DosDrivers? :)
Here is what happens without it (http://ajk.pp.fi/cd.jpg) (excuse the moiré), the disc seems to be recognized but the drive just stays active, no icon ever appears on workbench, and I can't cd to or list contents of the volume.
All Poseidon settings should pretty much be default still, haven't tried tinkering with stuff yet. Any ideas what is going wrong here? I can try a different drive or more discs but they should all be in order. IDE DVD drive works fine (with the appropriate CD0 in devs).