how do I get a filesystem driver working in wb1.3???

[Generale]

Hi there.
As you may or may not know, I recently built the a500ide hack.
Works fine. Just one problem.
I have no idea how to get a CD-ROM to work with it.
I know the drive is functional, and when I do iddr the right stats are spat back.

First I tried Ralph Babel's driver. No luck. I just couldn't figure out why it wasn't working.

Then I tried Xetec. I don't know how to mount a FFS formatted floppy in wb1.3! I tried dumping the files across, but the copy protection got all narky with me. Pity, because it seemed to know what was going on.

Can anyone help me out with this? I want to use a cd-rom on my A500, but it's fighting me every step of the way!

[Generale]

I'm using ide.device    Its used with the a500ide interface. It works fine, because my primary hdd works beautifully. Its already in devs. The ide. device is also atapi packet compatible, thats why xetec thinks it can use the driver.

oh yeah, i played with the utils that came with amicdfs. They seemed to be able to talk to the device driver. I have been wary about trying its fs driver though, because I thought it was only 2.0 and later compatible.

[Generale]

Been playing around with the mountlist entry. This is the closest I have got to a working entry:

CD0: Handler = L:BABELCDROMFS
     Startup = ide.device
     Unit = 1
     StackSize = 4000
     Priority = 10
     GlobVec = -1
     Mount = 1
#

okay. then I go mount cd0: in cli
The little babelcdromfs blurb is displayed.
Then I get a dialog:

"Volume
is write protected"
(retry/cancel buttons)
so hitting cancel gets me back to cli
then i go cd cd0:
and get "Not a DOS disk in unit 0" (retry/cancel)

Any ideas?

[Generale]

I was looking at idefix. I'm not sure if it is what I need. It looks like it has some sort of multiple ide driver in it. Unfortunately, the driver I'm using is unique to the interface. It can handle atapi already too afaik.
Thanks for that though! I'm going to look at it a little more later.

[Generale]

Thanks Thomas.

I was wondering about DosType. Oddly enough, none of the various filesystem drivers I found had dostype in their example mountlists.

I put the CDFS dostype in and tried a venerable cd in it to ensure it was plain iso9660 just to be safe. Still the exact same thing.

I feel like the OS is completely ignoring the babel driver, even though it starts it up when I mount.

Don't suppose you know how to mount a FFS formatted floppy??

[Generale]

what the...that's weird. I thought I'd posted.

I checked. FFS is in l
I know it works too because my hard drive is using it.

I thought it was 2.0 and greater that supported automounting of floppy ffs.

I tried the manual ffs mount listed in another thread, but the poster was unsure if it was 100% right.

[Generale]

I'd settle for manual mount. Depending on what I do, I either get it just sitting there going 'duuuhhh...I dunno what you're on about' to a guru.
I'm having terrible luck with mounting things for some reason.

Anyway, I decided to try fmsdisk because the disk I want to mount is a dump of a DMS anyway. No luck there either. I don't get it. I really dont.

I'm currently trying to find makeml.

Thanks