OS 3.9 CD-Rom drive detection

[arkpandora]

Hi,

I am new to OS 3.9, and I don't know how to make it detect my CD-Rom drive without having to rely on shareware packages like IDE-fix or AmiCDFS.  The drive is connected as "slave" along with a "master" hard drive on the IDE port of an A4000D with KS 3.1.  As I have never mounted any CD-Rom drive manually, some help would be welcome.  Here's what I have done, successively :

1. On a newly partioned and formatted hard drive, installed OS 3.1.
2. Installed "IDE-Fix '97" in order to setup the CD-Rom drive, which worked immediately.
3. Installed OS 3.9 after booting from the hard drive.  As advised by the installer, I created an Emergency-disk and tried to start the installation again booting from this disk, but whatever the options I chose in the installer, the disk didn't detect the CD-Rom drive, showing instead an error message : "Cannot open scsi.device unit 1" or "Cannot open atapi.device unit 1" according to the drive type I chose in the installer.
4. Installed BoingBag 1 et 2 and rebooted at least one time after each update.
5. Uninstalled IDE-Fix.
6. Before rebooting (in order to keep the CD), started OS 3.9 installer again in order to run the CD-Rom drivers installation option (I don't remember its name), then rebooted.  But the CD drive isn't detected : during boot the computer says "Cannot open scsi.device unit 1" again.

OS 3.9 installs "CacheCDFS" and a "CD0" that points to scsi.device and contains the right unit number (1).  And if I understand well, OS 3.9 comes with a new scsi.device that should detect the drive.  So, do you know where the problem lies ?

Thank you for any advice !

[arkpandora]

Thank you for your help !

amije wrote:
os3.9 faq

Unfortunately, there I don't find any answer to my problem.

A4000_Mad wrote:
Hi,

I would suggest that you install IDEfix and get your CDrom working again if you can. Then when creating the Emergency-Disk be sure to click on 'UseIDEFix' at this screen.

Wow, lively tutorial.

I did try this "Use IDEfix" option, as well as the "Use SCSI" option : when booting from the Emergency-disk the computer then says "Cannot open atapi.device unit 1".  But even if the Emergency-disk worked with IDEfix, would booting from the floppy really help OS 3.9 install CD drive detection on the hard drive without IDEfix ?

[arkpandora]

Thank you again for the disk : I have just e-mailed you back again.

The IDEFix that was written to the Emergency-Disk will work regardless of whether it is still installed on the hard drive.

What I meant is that a working Emergency-disk would only be useful to me here if you need one in order to install OS 3.9 properly, that is in order to install the CD drive as well.

I have just turned the Amiga on again : I had left it without IDEfix hence without the CD drive being detected (as I could not make the CD work only with OS 3.9's CD drivers), but now the CD is automatically detected...  Therefore it was just a matter of switching the computer off then on after installing the two BoingBag and the CD drivers of OS 3.9.  I guess the ROM update is involved here.