OS 3.9 Free CD-ROM support?

[doctorq]

Well, OS3.9 does come with free CDROM support, but it doesn't come with any device drivers.

CacheCDFS is not shareware if that is what you mean by shareware. Back in the days it was a commercial product, but I believe the owner is/was part of the OS3.9 team.

[doctorq]

@XDelusion

It is always recommended to install OS3.9 by using a Emergency Disk. This disk is bootable, and will load Workbench 3.9 from the CD. Install to a clean harddrive, and you haven't got any of the problems you are having now, as the two icons is because of two CD entries in Devs:DOSDrivers and Storage:DOSDrivers, and traces from IDEfix I believe.

[doctorq]

Why would you delete all things in Devs:DOSDrivers, and CacheCDFS in L:?

In Devs:DOSDrivers are all the device drivers for Amiga, so you should only delete those which point at your CD drive, and in this case it would be those pointing at scsi.device unit 1.

CacheCDFS is the filesystem for CD drives, and without this your CD drive will not work.

To install OS3.9, make a working environment with CD support, insert the OS3.9 CD, create an emergency CD from the install script on the OS3.9 CD, reboot the computer and load OS3.9 of the nemly created disk, format the boot partition of the hdd and install OS3.9 on this.

-EDIT-

Choose NOT to install the device drivers, etc, from the Emergency disk. Instead, after the installationprocedure has finishing, boot from the Emergency disk again, and choose to install CDROM Support.

[doctorq]

I say again; choose NOT to copy files from the Emergency disk.

If you have used the IDEfix package from Aminet to install the CD drive, then you need to replace the CacheCDFS file with the one from the OS3.9 CD.