Re: Harddrives
I quick way to check to see if the harddrives is to hold both mouse buttons down on bootup, go to Boot Options and see if there are any drives listed there other than DF0: If there are, then most likely none of the partitions are marked as "bootable" in HDToolbox. If nothing is listed there than the drives are either broken, not installed properly, or not formatted as Amiga drives. To check this, you'll have to boot off a floppy and load up HDToolbox as someone already stated. IF HDToolbox recognizes them than you'll have to partition, format, and install the OS to HD before it will boot.
Re: CD-ROM drive
The A4000's IDE controller works fine for a CD-ROM drive but if you've already got two HD connected you're out of luck unless you get some hardware to allow you to use 4 IDE devices. Also, just because you connect a CD-ROM drive to your Amiga doesn't mean it will instantly work. You'll need to install the software to use it. Unfortunately, OS3.1 doesn't have this software. OS3.5 & 3.9 do, but since those versions of the OS only come on CD, you're left with a bit of a chicken-and-the-egg situation. :-? You'll need to find a way to get something like IDEfix onto a floppy and install it to your harddrive before the CD-ROM will work.
