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Offline FireflySTTopic starter

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Need help setting up CD-ROM drive
« on: May 18, 2006, 09:15:56 PM »
Can anyone help me with setting up a CD-ROM?  I'm totally new to the amiga OS.  I'm using a GVP SCSI interface that connects to my accelerator.  The driver seems to be there, as it is looking for something on ID 3 when the OS comes up.

I'm using AmigaOS 3.9, if that matters.

Any help or a mini-walkthrough would be appreciated!
Amiga 3000 w/Mercury 68040 35mhz, ethernet
Amiga 1200 w/GVP Turbo+ II, and 1291 SCSI, 2mb chipram, 8mb fastram
Amiga 2000 as games machine in my living room :/
 

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Re: Need help setting up CD-ROM drive
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2006, 09:21:40 PM »
yep. exactly.
Amiga 3000 w/Mercury 68040 35mhz, ethernet
Amiga 1200 w/GVP Turbo+ II, and 1291 SCSI, 2mb chipram, 8mb fastram
Amiga 2000 as games machine in my living room :/
 

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Re: Need help setting up CD-ROM drive
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2006, 02:45:16 PM »
Well, I figured out what was causing "cannot open gvpscsi.device unit 3" - something called "EMERGENCY_CD" was in the DosDrivers folder.  I accidentally clicked on it and it gave me that error, so I removed it (just moved it out of the folder), and I no longer get that error on boot.

Now, I downloaded and reinstalled the GVP SCSI software which seemed to be mostly missing from the system before.

You know, I have nothing attached to unit 3, should I just set it to unit 3 and see what happens?

Also, bizarreness: There is something called KingCON-mountlist in DEVS:DosDrivers/ but no "mountlist".  I cannot find KingCON anywhere else on the system.

This thing seems messed up.  I would have just wiped it out and loaded 3.9 fresh, but alas, I couldn't get the CD drive to work :p
Amiga 3000 w/Mercury 68040 35mhz, ethernet
Amiga 1200 w/GVP Turbo+ II, and 1291 SCSI, 2mb chipram, 8mb fastram
Amiga 2000 as games machine in my living room :/
 

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Re: Need help setting up CD-ROM drive
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2006, 08:22:36 PM »
Heh, I still need some help with this, though it will show my AmigaOS 3.9 CD when I boot up now.

Is there a better CD-ROM driver than the EMERGENCY_CD file that OS 3.9 installs?  I was hoping for something that will show the CD on the desktop when you insert it.
Amiga 3000 w/Mercury 68040 35mhz, ethernet
Amiga 1200 w/GVP Turbo+ II, and 1291 SCSI, 2mb chipram, 8mb fastram
Amiga 2000 as games machine in my living room :/
 

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Re: Need help setting up CD-ROM drive
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2006, 09:14:22 PM »
So this is a software problem then? I have a hard time understanding why emergency_cd will detect the AmigaOS cd, but not ejections or any other CDs.

Maybe I need to update gvpscsi.device?
Amiga 3000 w/Mercury 68040 35mhz, ethernet
Amiga 1200 w/GVP Turbo+ II, and 1291 SCSI, 2mb chipram, 8mb fastram
Amiga 2000 as games machine in my living room :/