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Re: -A2000 CD ROM Install
« on: November 02, 2009, 08:27:02 PM »
Unless the SCSI controller you want to use is the worst designed controller, the device driver is placed in a boot rom on the controller. The device name for this device driver depends on the SCSI controller, a GVP HC2+ has scsidev.device for instance, GVP HC8+ has gvpscsi.device, etc. You can use SysInfo to find out what your device driver is called. When you know what the device driver is called and you have selected an ID on the SCSI drive, you have all the information you need.

On OS2.x you use mountlists; DOSDrivers first comes with OS3.0. Your CDROM installation software would either add the CD drive mountlist to the existing mountlist, or create a seperate mountlist for the CD drive, and execute it through the startup-sequence or user-startup. You have to either edit the global mountlist or the specific mountlist.

Use AmiCDFS or IDEfix97 from http://www.aminet.net to install the CDROM software. The latter is prefered, it comes with a nice program to scan for available device drivers, and works very well if you don't have a problem with a requestor popping up every 30 minutes.