Installing a cd-rom drive on my a4000

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I won an A4000 on ebay earlier this month and then I spent days fighting with the internal IDE interface to detect 2 drives (Hard drive and CD ROM) with no luck despite trying multiple drives and cables.

You are kidding, right? Harddrive as master, CD/CDR/CDRW/DVD as slave, install Workbench and install IDEfix97 from Aminet and you are set.

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Is the only device listed in FindDevice the scsi.device? If so, copy the atapi.device from the IDEfix package to devs: and start FindDevice again.

As for CD drives; I have tried plenty, but the only ones that have given me problems are ASUS drives.

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@Darrin

Glad you got it sorted :-)

[doctorq]

Some small corrections/additions.

IDEfix97 doesn't need to be registred, but if you don't, you will have a pop up requester every now and then. Only question is if you can live with it or not :-)

If the CD drive doesn't work with scsi.device, use atapi.device from the IDEfix package. Remember to change the dosdriver if you change device driver.

[doctorq]

My IDEFix install found it on the SCSI.device (I've just rechecked and I'm looking at it right now) and only shows the Hard Drive on the atapi.device.

Seems like you are right on the scsi.device thing, as I apparently have mixed something up. You can use a CD drive with the use of atapi.device, CacheCDFS and a dosdriver without the need of IDEfix. With IDEfix you can use scsi.device as device driver, and don't need to use atapi.device. I don't know if there are any differences using scsi.device instead of atapi.device.

Nevertheless I doubt that it really is your hdd that shows under atapi.device.