A600, IDE CDrom, names being truncated?

[AmmoJammo]

I have an IDE DVD rom drive, and 4gig compact flash card connected to my A600.

I got the dvd rom working using AmiCDFS, with the atapi.device driver from IDEfix97.

The drive now works, appears in workbench, icon appears and disappears when a cd is inserted or removed.

However, the file names on the disc are being truncated to 8.3 characters.



Why is this happening? Is there some setting I need to change somewhere? are the drivers just not right?

These same discs appear correctly in my A500, using a scsi cdrom connected to an A590 scsi controller.

edit: the cdrom drive appears as "old file system" in sysinfo, while the CF partitions appear as FFS?

Thanks!

[AmmoJammo]

Yes, burnt on a PC.

I thought I'd used IDEfix on the A500, but I don't get any registration popups, so either it was a "registered" version, or that wasn't what I ended up using, but I'm fairly sure it was, because I just used the install program, as nothing else seemed to work!

[AmmoJammo]

To quote the thread I started when trying to get the cdrom to work on the A500

SO! I ditched AmiCDFS, (after already ditching BabelCDFS) and tried IDEfix97 instead...

It appears to actually work! all the discs I've put in its recognised,  windows 98 install disc? a linux disc? apparently I have a burnt copy of  halflife with no label...

Not only that, but AmiCDFS wasn't displaying full folder and file names,  whereas IDEfix displays the full name, 20+ characters long, no worries!

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=61840

so, why does IDEfix97 display the full names?
I can't get IDEfix to work with the A600, apparently it doesn't like CF cards, and the install just crashes.

[AmmoJammo]

Quoted from my build log thread:

Are you using the standard CD0 file that is  included with Workbench 3.1? If so, you should use the mount file that's  included with AmiCDFS instead. Try this to see how it goes.

As far as I can recall, there was no CD0 file included in workbench, it was copied from the AmiCDFS folder.

[AmmoJammo]

But people have said that IDEfix doesn't support Joliet, so why does it appear to on my A500?

what is CacheCDFS? is this something that's included with idefix? and how does one go about using it?

[AmmoJammo]

AsimCDFS will show the full files name.  It includes an install script to make the process easy.

is it downloadable?

[AmmoJammo]

This morning I tried AsimCDFS, tried it with the atapi.device that came with idefix, as well as the asim_atapi.device.

The drive mounts fine, but when I insert a cd, it kills workbench!

Might just burn cds differently, but I'd really like to be able to just put any cd in, and have it work.

[AmmoJammo]

Just in case you can't get AsimCDFS to work properly, you can try the following:

1. Download and extract the IDEfix archive: http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/IDEfix97

2. Copy the IDE-fix/l/CacheCDFS file to the L drawer on your boot partition.

3. Try using the CD0 mount file I have included here, just remember to change the unit number to the one used by your CD-ROM drive.

got an error message that says "cannot open atapi.device unit 0"

this is odd, as atapi.device, unit 0, is what I'm using with AmiCDFS.

[AmmoJammo]

Its a laptop DVD drive, there does not appear to be an option for master/slave

The CF is therefore set to slave, and appears to happily work like this.

[AmmoJammo]

If I set the CF to master, workbench still boots, but comes up with an error, can't remember what it said, but it doesn't do it with the CF set to slave.