SCSI CD-ROM in A4000T - How to configure

[Matt_H]

Copy the CD0 file from Storage to Devs:DosDrivers

Make sure the unit of your CD-ROM drive matched the unit in the icon.

Make sure L:CDFilesystem is present.

That's it!!

Good luck!

This is a good start, but, rcgrabbag, you'll probably find the OS3.1 built-in CD Filesystem to be woefully inadequate and buggy. AsimCDFS (commercial), AmiCDFS (Aminet), CacheCDFS (Aminet), and BabelCDFS (babel.de) are common replacements.

[Matt_H]

OK thanks! Got the CD0 file in Devs -> DosDrivers, used Information to change the Unit# in CD0 to match the SCSI device ID. I'm a little unclear on checking for the presence of L:CDFilesystem. Where does/should that reside?

L: is a logical directory (an 'Assign' in Amiga parlance) equivalent to SYS:L (and SYS: is a logical directory equivalent to your boot partition). So if you open a shell and type 'dir L:' (without the quotes) you should see CDFilesystem and a few other files.

You can also open your boot partition in Workbench and select Window->Show->All Files. L should then appear in that window and you can look inside. System files and directories are hidden by default - they don't have icons. Icons are those .info files you'll see in most dir listings in the shell and file requesters.

EDIT: Whoops, you all beat me to it while I was typing. Hope the UI tips come in handy, rcgrabbag.