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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Orphan264 on December 26, 2002, 04:31:55 PM
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It is my understanding that my Amiga 4000 with AmigaOS3.1 will support a standard IDE CD-ROM device. Is this true? I have attached a CD-ROM as SLAVE to a hard disk. (I have done this sort of thing on a PC many times) What is the secret to make this work? I have played with the mountlist for CD0: but I cannot make any progress. I have no SCSI controller or devices, only IDE. Any and all comments and explanations are welcome!
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you need the atapi.device to work properly yuor IDE CD-ROM.
AmigaOS uses the scsi.device for both IDE and SCSI
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Is the atapi.device part of OS3.1? Are you saying that I only need to modify the mountlist for device CD0: to reference atapi.device instead of scsi.device? Thanks for the information, but I need further details, if you can provide them. Thanks!
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for Amiga OS 3.1 you have to install a cdfs system, like AsimCDFS, thats what I found to work, in OS 3.9 though I think it supports cd rom drives already
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Warpiper, Is it my ONLY option to install a 3rd party CD filesystem or upgrade my OS? I thought CD support (even though it may be limited) was part of OS3.1? I appreciate the help, but I would *prefer* to enable the device with a minimum of extra software. Is this possible?
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You could find in aminet CDfilesystems like amicdfs for free but for attach an IDE cd-ROM you need an atapi.device.
If your drive is SCSI it works with scsi.device like a harddisk. Also IDE HD´s uses the scsi.device as well but ATAPI(IDE) CD_ROMs don´t work. You need to patch the scsi.device with instruction to recognice and drive the ATAPI mechanism and this is done by the atapi.device
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I think that OS3.1 worked for scsi, but to use IDE drives, you need something to point to the atapi device, thats why you needed the CDFS drivers
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You can use the idefix97 package from aminet for a demo version of atapi.device.
A requester will pop up now and then though..
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I could've sworn I had an IDE CDROM working just fine with one of my A4k's running default OS3.1?
There's a CD Filesystem included with 3.1 (L:CDFileSystem) and all I had to do was change the cd0 mountlist to look at scsi.device unit 1 (via the tooltype) and stick it in DEVS:DOSdrivers. However the filesystem doesn't have joliet support (so filenames are limited to MSDOS-style 8.3)
Isn't atapi.device only for use with those 4-way adaptors so that you can access the second IDe channel?
Hmmm.. maybe my memory is playing up
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scsi.device don´t work with IDE CD-Roms, at least in my beloved A1200 until atapi.device was installed.
atapi.device is used for access ATAPI devices such as CD-ROM,ZIP,LS-120,etc under the IDE port of the A1200 & A4k or a 4-way adaptor for those Amigas
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For OS 3.0/3.1 you need atapi.device. It does not come with
3.1 You need IDEFIX97, but it is a demo and a requestor
will pop up! Get OS3.9, it patches the scsi.device
to use ATAPI devices and CD-ROMs work great with scsi.device,
no atapi.device needed anymore. BUT to install 3.9 you
need a CD-ROM drive! So again use IDEFIX97 to setup the
CD-ROM and install the new OS... It is worth it.
Tim
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You could also try the ATAPIPnP demo package from Aminet. I used to use this with my Amiga 4000 and IDE CD-ROM before getting OS3.5 which has ATAPI CD-ROM support in the scsi.device and the cachecdfs filesystem included. Apart from the annoying requester ATAPIPnP put up every so often, it worked like a charm.
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You need IDEFIX97, but it is a demo and a requestor
will pop up! Get OS3.9, it patches the scsi.device
to use ATAPI devices and CD-ROMs work great with scsi.device,
no atapi.device needed anymor
How should I do that ? I'm using 3.9 but i'm still getting those annoying requesters IDEFIX and CacheCDFS...
(and still using atapi.device I quess)
Thanks in advance
P
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pee_001 wrote:
How should I do that ? I'm using 3.9 but i'm still getting those annoying requesters IDEFIX and CacheCDFS...
(and still using atapi.device I quess)
Thanks in advance
P
Replace atapi.device in cd0: mountkist with scsi.device