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Amiga 4000 - How to add a CDROM Drive?
« on: January 04, 2005, 07:03:37 PM »
Alright, I'm slowly getting back into the Amiga groove.  I have this A4000 that I would like to add a CDROM drive to, but everything I have tried doesn't work.

The Amiga is a 4000D with Cyberstorm 060/50, 64MB on Cyberstorm, 16MB + 2MB on motherboard, 3.1 ROMs, and socketed Buster 9.  I have a 1.2GB IDE hard drive with WB3.1 installed.  I have tried to connect 2 different spare IDE CDROM drives up one at a time with my hard drive as master and CD drive as slave.  It will boot into Workbench.   I then installed the software from my Cyberstorm both the 060 libaries and SCSI utilities disks.  The SCSI disk has a CD filesystem setup on it that I installed and tried to get to recognize the CDROM drives, but I never would recognize the drives.

When I boot with the drive connected I get no icon on workbench and when I try to select the CD0 volume, I get not a dos disk. When I boot without the CD drive connected, I get a CD icon on the screen with something like CD0:Bad.

My question is for the cheapest method to either setup one of my existing CD drives or which CD drive and software to use.  I would like to be able to eventually get AOS3.9 (on CD therefore need CD access).  I also need to be able to read CD's which I burned from my PC.

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Re: Amiga 4000 - How to add a CDROM Drive?
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2005, 02:06:41 AM »
Alright, I got my CDROM drive working.  I used IDEfix 97 and it detected the drive without any problems.  A real easy process I must say.  Formatted a bootable hard drive partition. Installed Workbench 3.1. Installed IDEfix 97 and CD's worked.  I have the hard drive set as master and CDROM set as slave.  CDROM drive is a Panasonic 4X CR-581-B.