Hi!
I am in the very last stage of setting up an A500 with Supra 500XP sidecard (SCSI + RAM).
All I have left to do is back the whole thing up to a CD-R. I have attached a CD-writer (SCSI) to the external SCSI port of the Supra 500XP.
HD-Tools can see the drive (device 4). MakeCD can see the drive and even do read/writes to it.
BUT I CAN'T FRIKKIN' GET WORKBENCH TO SEE IT!
I have used CD's with OS3.9 a lot, but I've never had to install one on a plain OS3.1 system.
- First, I tried double clicking the CD0: icon included in WB3.1. Nothing happened.
- Next, I edited the mountlist for CD0: to "suprascsi.device" and set device number to "4" which is the SCSI ID of this drive. Reboot the Amiga. Double click CD0 to mount it. Nothing.
- Third, I say - okay, maybe I need something more advanced. I download AmiCDFS and install it as per instructions. I edit the mountlist for CD0 again so that it reflects the "suprascsi.device" and "4" I need.
- I put the AmiCDFS CD0: mountlist in DEVS/DOSDRIVERS
- reboot Amiga
- This time, during boot I get the error message: "C: ADDDATATYPES UNKNOWN COMMAND". (Yes, ADDDATATYPES is definitely in my C/directory).
- When Amiga boots up there is a CD0: icon on the desktop but says: CD0:
and when double clicking to open it a window pops up: Not at DOS disk.
- For some reason now, I notice that Multiview won't start when I try to read an Amigaguide document (likely connected to Adddatatypes error).
- Okay, what the heck is happening?
- I remove CD0 from my DEVS/DOSDRIVERS and reboot.
- no ADDDATATYPES error during boot (good!)
- After boot is finished, multiview works again (Yay!)
- I click on CD0 to mount it. Nothing happens. Device is definitely mounted, as the device name shows up in my DirMaster utility and others, but when accessed, again I get "NOT A DOS disk".
So...I am stumped. I can burn CD's with MakeCD but cannot read them back because Workbench will not see this drive.
This is obviously very frustrating.
The only think I can think of is that somehow the Supra controller doesn't like CD drives? I have the latest ROM revision it in (AMAB6).
