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Offline chris

Re: My CD-ROM thinks its a hard drive!
« on: August 29, 2003, 08:49:52 PM »
It probably doesn't think it is a hard drive, I suspect it is a bug in SCSI List (a program I must admit to never having heard of), older versions of HDToolBox do it too, it isn't anything to worry about.

I take it your CD-ROM drive is connected to the Squirrel?  In that case, IDEFix97 won't be of any use at all (atapi.device is for IDE/ATAPI CD-ROMs only).  IIRC the Squirrel software should set everything up nicely for you, but assumes the Commodore CDFS (which isn't great, and isn't present on anything other than OS3.1)

You can get the latest Squirrel software from ftp://ftp.hisoft.co.uk - I would do that first to ensure we are talking about the same thing  :-)

Next, install the software.  It should only install DEVS:squirrelscsi.device and a few other tools which are of no relevance to what we are trying to achieve.  Check you have DEVS:squirrelscsi.device.  You should also have a mountlist entry for CD0, this will either be in DEVS:mountlist or DEVS:DOSDrivers/CD0 (I forget whether the Squirrel install knows about the WB3.x file structure, and you haven't mentioned what you are running anyway)

If you have either of the above, open them into a text editor.  The DEVS:mountlist file should be one long file, hopefully there will be an entry at the end which looks something like:

CD0:
    device = squirrelscsi.device
[and some other stuff]
#

The DEVS:DOSDrivers/CD0 file should be the same but without "CD0:" and "#".  There are a few things to check, it should be like below:

device = squirrelscsi.device
unit =
filesystem = l:cachecdfs

Anything else in there, leave it.  If you are on OS3.x and have a DEVS:mountlist file instead, it is best to copy and paste the relevant section into a new file and save it into DEVS:DOSDrivers as CD0.

If you can't find any of the above, copy the CD0 file from SYS:Storage/DOSDrivers into DEVS:DOSDrivers.  I have just noticed that DEVICE and UNIT are set in the tooltypes of that one, but you still need to load it into a text editor to change the filesystem to CacheCDFS.

Hopefully this will work. 8-)

Chris
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Offline chris

Re: My CD-ROM thinks its a hard drive!
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2003, 12:43:49 PM »
Quote

AxE wrote:
you`ve misunderstood thats not what my cd0 file says, but what ARTM says is mounted


What does CD0 say?

Chris
"Miracles we do at once, the impossible takes a little longer" - AJS on Hyperion
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