Amiga 4000 CD-ROM

[spaceman88]

Hi,
When I put my A1200 in a tower I used IDEfix97 to install a CD-ROM and everything worked fine. Last year I put the A1200 back in it's original case. Last week I tried to put a CD-ROM in an A4000. The boot drive is on the IDE connector, I have an Octagon SCSI card which works with a Quantum hard drive (id #2). If I replace the HD with a CD-ROM and install IDEfix it works perfectly until I reboot, then it no longer shows any CD I put in the drive. The same thing happens if I install an IDE CDROM, click install, it finds the drive, reads the CD"s until I reboot. System has 3.1 roms & Workbench. I used to be much better with Amigas 10 years ago!!!
Thanks for any ideas.
Len

[spaceman88]

When you've installed IDEfix, check if there is a CD0 or CD1 etc. file in DHx:Storage/Dosdrivers. If so, move it to Dhx: Devs/Dosdrivers.

Hi,
I moved CD0 to the Devs/Dosdrivers drawer, it still didn't see the CD. If I click on the CD0 icon the CD works. There must be a way to automatically mount the drive without digging through several drawers to click on the icon.
Len

[spaceman88]

I think it may have something to do with the swapping of the hard drive and cdrom to different interfaces.  What I would do is start from fresh after deciding which hard drive will be the boot drive and if you will use an IDE CDROM or SCSI CDROM on the Octagon.  i would then delete any Cd dosdrivers, and any reference to idefix in your startup or user startup.  Then install IDEFIX again, it should pick up your CDROM on either the IDE interface or on the octagon (i think its octagon.device or octagonscsi.device).  If you have a hard drive on the octagon it will pick that up as well, i think.  Also check if you have the latest octagon ROM, version 8 i think is the latest, and this was on the net somewhere, octapussy was its name I think

Hi,
I did an uninstall of IDEfix, then reinstalled the software. I'm a little unsure about how to delete stuff in the startup sequence :-(. Right now I'm using the SCSI drive and can make it work by opening the Devs/Dosdrivers drawer and clicking on CD0, but as soon as I reboot I have to do it again.

[spaceman88]

Also check the following in IDEfixprefs:
 
Set the "Unit Mount" parameter either to "Auto Detect"
or "CD Mount". Make sure, that "ATAPI enabled" is checked.
Also make sure "WaitDriveReady" option is checked.
 
Save your changes and reboot.

Hi,
The startup has the mount command. I made the changes in the IDEfixprefs and now the computer won't boot :-(. I was able to boot from a floppy, but when I tried to change the prefs back it keeps trying to write to my floppy. I guess I should have quit while I was ahead!!
Len

[spaceman88]

Hi again,
I edited the startup-sequence and got it working again. I went back to the IDE interface and got the IDE CDROM to be reconized, so everything seemed to be going well....until it started flashing green or purple screens on atempting to boot. I finally got it to boot by replaceng the Warp Engine with a 68030 board then I lost all Fast Ram!! This thing must have a curse on it!!!