Missing CD drives

[DomN76]

Hello

Clueless, so humour me

Just got my hands on a towerised a1200 with 2 optical drives, both of which are mechanically functioning (i.e. the draw opens when you press the button)

In Workbench, however, there are only 3 things to click on - 2 floppy disk symbols (one of which I presume is the hard-drive, the other representing the empty floppy drive) and the Workbench icon

Am I right in assuming that the optical drives should also be accessible through icons in workbench?

Am I also correct in guessing that there is some missing & expensive peice of hardware inside the beige box?

As I would only use the drives to transfer files from my PC, would it be cheaper to use something like this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMIGA-PC-NETWORK-TOOLKIT-BRAND-NEW-AND-SEALED_W0QQitemZ5843960690QQcategoryZ191QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Thanks people  :roll:

[DomN76]

Okeydokey... any clues as to how to mount the drive?

[DomN76]

Thanks people

I will try investigating further

Apologies for the lack of specifics

[DomN76]

Ok, double clicked on the floppy icons:

RAM disk: 100% full, 0k free, 13k in use
Empty: 0% full, 1,188m free, 305k in use

I'm guessing 'Empty' is the HDD. There is, appropriately, nothing in it

Putting a CD into either drive results in no further icons appearing, unlike the floppy drive, which behaves as described above

When I type Mount CD0: in a shell box, nothing happens, it just goes to the next line, no error message

I used the format disk utility thing and it listed the following things that could be formatted:

CC0: - 20k capacity
DF0: - 880k capacity (the floppy drive??)
DH0: - 32m 12% used (the CD-RW I had in the drive??)
DH1: - 1189m 0% used (the HDD drive??)

Typing Mount DH0: gives the error message 'unknown command' or similar

Is there anything special I need to do before the system will recognise a CD? Is it possibly the fact I used a CD RW not a CD R?

Any genius insights people?

[DomN76]

Thanks Mike

The only thing in devs/ dos drivers is 'pipe' which is apparently already mounted

Copied out of the store(there was 1, CD0, not 2), renamed and changed info,but still doesn't work

[DomN76]

Amiga Pete,

What do I need Directory Opus to do?

I'm having some trouble getting a floppy formatted at 720kb

[DomN76]

Just re-read the ebay listing carefully:

"the scsi controller has been removed and sold separately"

which is what makes the CD drives work!

Can anyone tell me which one of these might do the trick?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8741056038&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

or

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8741798451&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

[DomN76]

Superb, thanks for all that Lando

I wondered what was going wrong with the /f switch, but assumed it was just me!

[DomN76]

Sorry Pete, thought you meant directory opus for use on the PC (you do mean it for the amiga, right?)