Install this SCSI CD-Rom... GRR

[voxel]

Hi :-)

Don't panic, take a big breath of air and try this :

1 : make a copy of your OS3.1 Workbench disk,
2 : make some room on the copy by erasing utilities drawer contents,
3 : copy Extras3.1:l/cdfilesystem to your workbench3.1:l drawer,
4 : copy Storage3.1:DOSDrivers/CD0 and CD0.info to you workbench3.1:devs/dosdrivers/ drawer,
5 : set your CDRom Drive to unit 4 with it's jumpers (see top of the drive for proper jumper settings)
6 : edit the CD0 file as follow :

FileSystem  = L:CDFileSystem
Device = gvpscsi.device
Unit = 4
Flags    = 0
Surfaces = 1
SectorsPerTrack   = 1
SectorSize  = 2048
Mask     = 0x7ffffffe
MaxTransfer = 0x100000
Reserved = 0
Interleave  = 0
LowCyl      = 0
HighCyl     = 0
Buffers     = 5
BufMemType  = 0
StackSize   = 1000
Priority = 10
GlobVec     = -1
DosType     = 0x43443031

7 : save edited CD0 file back to disk ;-)
8 : edit the CD0.info tooltypes to remove DEVICE= and UNIT= entries, as usually it don't want to work as is ;-)
9 : reboot your A4000, pray a little :-D
10 : enjoy

You can now install OS3.9 with no soucy :-)

Amigalement,

Jean-François.

[voxel]

@ xaccrocheur :

Did you read my first post :-?

There's all you need to know in it :-)

Amigalement,

Jean-François.

[voxel]

@ baro2000 :

The setup I described was tried and verified as I typed the post, and guaranted to work (A4000, Rom 3.1, GVP A2000 HC8+ Serie II rev II, fully populated 8 Mb banks, GVP Faaastrom v4.5 onboard.)

Pay attention to the GVP's jumpers : it must be as follow :

J4 ON (autoboot active)
J6 ON (8 Mb memory
J8 ON  installed)
J2 Pins 1-2 ON

-Edit and error corrected-
J15 OFF (DTACK not used in A4000) (not J12 as staded before)

All other jumpers should be left open.

Just follow the steps as described, without ommiting any.

Amigalement,

Jean-François.

[voxel]

@ baro2000 :
>What is the shortest mountlist entry needed for CD-Rom to be recognised?

All the entry shown in the mountlist I gave are needed, so IT IS the shortest one ;-)

I don't had that controler, what is the name of it's device?

@ xacrocheur

You must have an older revision 2 GVP card (there were some with different layout)

-Edit and error corrected-
BTW the J15 (DTACK) jumper (NOT J12) was not present on that revision, so ignore it.

For J2, it's a tree pins jumper on the GVP scsi card and only the pins 1 and 2 must be jumpered as follow :

this side is pin 1 -->     <1-2 3|

Amigalement,

Jean-François.

[voxel]

@ xaccrocheur :

See your email box :^)

Amigalement,

Jean-François.

[voxel]

@ nyteschayde :

Files on the OS3.9 CD are aimed for use with OS3.9.

The easyiest way to go is making a basic install of OS3.1, boot with it (no need to set preferences), install needed third party libraries (P5 68040/060 library per example), and set up the CD0: driver as stated in my first post in this thread (point 5 to .

After that, installing OS3.9 from the CDRom would be a breeze ;-)

You even can do it with only the modified Workbench3.1: disk with a Blank Hard drive! you just need a blank floppy to create the OS3.9 emergency disk.

Why complicating simple things with PeeCee stuff :-?

Amigalement,

Jean-François.

[voxel]

@ xaccrocheur :

>How can I make an icon file from scratch ? I don't have CD0.info.

Just do that in the CLI :
 copy workbench3.1:devs/dosdrivers/pipe.info to workbench3.1:devs/dosdrivers/CD0.info

next go to workbench, open the dosdrivers drawer and edit the CD0 icon tooltypes, change ACTIVATE=0 (mount and wait first call to the volume) to ACTIVATE=1 (mount and use immediatelly)

Et voila :-)

Amigalement,

Jean-françois.

[voxel]

># Why are the credits and readme stuff stupidly tied to OS3.9 - specific apps ?
R : Cause it uses specific OS3.9 routines not necessary present in old kickstarts ;-)

># Is'nt there some sort of "entreprise" license ? I mean intended for large parks of machines, like a renderfarm... Well, it's not expensive, I'm just asking.
R : until now... no ;-) (but AmigaOS is cheap enough to buy multiple copies), BTW ask fleccy :-)

>nearly *give* you the machines
R : don't dream so much :-D at least not until the Amiga is succesfull again (soon) ;-)

Amigalement,

Jean-François.