V 1.72 cd.device for Atapi CD-Drives on A1200

[pheald]

I've recently bought an Amiga 1200 to relive my childhood, and sadly the frustration I'm feeling is pretty accurate!

I've managed to hook it up to a nice new hard disk and use 3.5" cables and so on and so forth, but the only atapi driver I can find that has worked so far has been the Atapi PnP package "V 1.72 cd.device for Atapi CD-Drives on A1200" on Aminet... it gives me a cd.device that I can use to mount my cd and all goes well... IDEFix seemed to do an okay job, but it crashed a number of times, but I'm sure I could work with that...

I'm only using an HDD and a CDROM, so I don't need the fancy 4 port switching facilities of IDEFix...

But here's my problem. If I'm going to pay for IDEFIx I want it to work perfectly (it seems a little expensive for software that can kill my machine from time to time). What I would really like is a registered version of the package I'm using, but I have written to the address in the readme, and strangely enough, his address from 1997 is no longer valid... go figure... does anyone know if this package has now been released into the public domain, and if so, where I can get it? If not, does anyone know of any other package (specifically, some form of .device file) that I can place in my DEVS: folder which will allow me to get my cd drive up and running?

I'm using OS3.9 which I got thinking it had CD funcionality, but alas, unless I'm doing something majorly wrong, it would appear not. (I tried accessing both unit 0 and unit 1 of scsi.device and didn't get very far).

Please help me out if you know what I need to do. This is driving me crazy, and I'm beginning to wish I'd stuck with my happy little PC.

Regards,

Paul

[pheald]

What part of the startup sequence updates the Rom?

[pheald]

Okay... Erm... AGH!

So my understanding is this... the scsi.device that's built into my kickstart ROM won't do the job, but OS3.9 runs a command called Setpatch which will patch the device and all should work...

well, if I boot with no startup-sequence and do

>version scsi.device
I get version 40.something

then I run the setpatch and it gives me a long list of things it's checking (including scsi.device) and then it tells me no ROM updates were done. If I then do the version command again,  it gives me the same version number. Am I missing something fundamental here?

Yes, I have the HDD set as master and the CD as slave. If I use atapi.device or cd.device (I think they're both part of IDEfix or the package I mentioned before (the Atapipnp) then I get the device listed, but both with the nag screens that I want to avoid... if I use scsi.device then it can't find the drive. (presumably because the scsi.device that's built into my machine is useless)...

What gives with the setpatch thing?

Thanks for all your help by the way.

[pheald]

Yeah, I have the 3.1 roms... I can run the CD drive long enough to install... but when I do the setpatch, the report comes back (after a long list) that no rom updates were installed... I notice that next to scsi.device the version number it is "checking" is 100.something...

I'm clearly totally incompetent... I reinstalled workbench over my installation. As I say, I can get the computer to detect the CD drive through shareware devices (cd.device, atapi.device) but these devices are crippled... My kickstart chips are version 40.68.

I've not applied the boingboing updates... Guess I'll try that. Thanks again.

[pheald]

Setpatch v44.17

Tried to download the boingbag updates but I can't locate them on the amiga.com site... any ideas where they're available?