The magic of DVD drives: how to check if it works

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

It's been over 10 years since I had an A1200 with a CD drive, but when I had mine I used the Elbox 4xEIDE interface and software as well, and it worked fine. I did have to install a file system that supported it, and I know I had a bit of trouble... some combinations of devices (different manufacturers) just would not work correctly as Master/Slave. I went through a few different devices, and occasionally had to configure them backward to what I thought was "logical" (i.e., set the CD drive as master and the hard disk as slave, or reverse their positions on the cable, try things like that).
 
Do you have any other drive you can try? Maybe a plain CD-ROM would have better luck than a DVD drive?
 
Also, try firing up HDToolbox or SysInfo, see if they're able to detect anything.
 
Good luck!

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

There's a few different ones, some of the free ones limit you to 8.3 filenames when reading back discs burned on a PC, but otherwise should work, yes.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Check your Devs: Dosdrivers/CD0. Is there anything in it's settings that may be causing it to point to the wrong (or a non-existant) device? For example if your drive is on scsi.device, but CD0 is looking for "gvpscsi.device"? Just a thought!

I burn CD's on my PC all the time using the default values in Nero 10 and Nero 12, and am able to read them back on my Amiga's no problem.  You may also want to try a different burning software, just to cover all your bases.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I think it was the unit number.  Sorry, meant to comment earlier.  Most times those parameters start with zero, so your hard drive would be 0, and your optical drive would be 1 (like you changed it to).  That's probably what did it, glad ya got it resolved!    :drink: