No CD-ROM Icon Appearing WB 3.1

[Matt_H]

What version is your gvpscsi.device? Older ones are kinda buggy, especially with removable media.

[Matt_H]

Delete whatever it was you copied to Devs:. Download and extract the GVP SCSI 4.15 BindDrivers driver from Ralph Babel's site and put it and any associated .info file in SYS:Expansion.

alexh is correct in that CD0 will never show up in the early boot menu.

[Matt_H]

@ alexh

Hmmmm.... Well, the old 4.5 ROM driver would start the boot process and 4.15 wouldn't get kicked in until the startup-sequence hit BindDrivers. I don't know if that would cause a problem. I'll check a GVP manual later.

EDIT: Oops, yeah, right there on the site:

To use the BindDrivers driver, you have to disable the ROM driver first.

@ hamtronix

Looks like you'll need 4.15 in ROM. These have been popping up on eBay a lot lately. Keep your eyes peeled.

[Matt_H]

@ hamtronix

If the problem is with gvpscsi.device, changing your CDFS probably won't help. I stopped using Asim many years ago, but I recently reinstalled it on a secondary machine and now I'm wondering why I ever got rid of it. Its direct access to files, audio tracks, and raw blocks are a unique all-in-one feature that I believe is worth holding onto.

That being said, AmiCDFS is a freeware alternative. See Aminet.

Try upgrading gvpscsi and Asim to the latest versions before you throw in the towel.

[Matt_H]

I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier, but try running GVP's mounting tool - it used to help me with diskchanges on an old SyQuest drive. I don't remember what it's called, but it's part of the standard GVP utility bundle. Mounter? GVPMounter? GVPSCSICtrl? Whatever it's called, it should bring up a big list of all the units on gvpscsi.device. Select your CD drive and hit the Mount button.

[Matt_H]

@ Oli_hd

That's a good idea - Asim does have a whole bunch of icons and related things it puts in ENVARC:. Since the original install disk was corrupt, those files might not have survived and their absence could be problematic.