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Offline Oldsmobile_MikeTopic starter

Need an idiot's guide to installing CD0: on my Amiga :)
« on: February 21, 2013, 05:00:52 PM »
My grand experiment in adding a CD drive to the Series II hard drive controller on my A500 is approaching success.  After paying a whopping $2 for the drive and $8 for the cable, I've got them connected and when I run SysInfo on the A500 it shows the presence of the drive, and even that I've got a disc inserted in it (my old OS 3.9 CD from back in the good old days).

Now keeping in mind the fact that I haven't used a CD drive on an Amiga since about 2003, and then it was on an A1200 with 4xEIDE, never used SCSI, what do I do next?

I've got a pretty bare-bones 3.1 setup on the machine now and located CD0 in the Storage/DOSdrivers directory, tried configuring it via it's tool types but it wouldn't run.  Upon further investigation it appears that I have only a CD0: .info file, with no actual "file" attached to it.  Should there be one?  What should it say?  I can just manually enter this in a text editor if I need to, LOL.  ;)

My methods for getting files onto this A500 are pretty limited right now, BTW.  Basically just if I've got an .adf I can burn it to disk via that parallel cable hookup that was posted about on here a few weeks ago.  I'd hoped that once I get this CD drive working, I can dump more files onto a disc from my PC and then read them back on an Amiga, but gotta figure out how to get this drive mounted, first!  ;)

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!
« Last Edit: February 21, 2013, 05:03:36 PM by Oldsmobile_Mike »
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Offline Oldsmobile_MikeTopic starter

Re: Need an idiot's guide to installing CD0: on my Amiga :)
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2013, 05:11:39 PM »
That looks like exactly what I need, I'll try it tonight, thanks! :)
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos
 

Offline Oldsmobile_MikeTopic starter

Re: Need an idiot's guide to installing CD0: on my Amiga :)
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2013, 04:32:18 PM »
Thanks Thomas, worked great!  Was able to read my old OS 3.9 CD with no issues as a test.  Good thing I didn't try to install it, would've run like a dog if at all on my '010, but nice to know it works.  :)  I assume there's no trick to reading a CD burned with a PC on an Amiga, right?  Didn't have any laying around last night, but that's my next step, LOL.  ;)
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos