Amiga 4000 CD-ROM

[stefcep2]

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

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

[stefcep2]

Its a little confusing as to what your hardware set up now is.  So, is your  cdrom attached to the IDE interface or to the Octagon ie are using the IDE CDROM or a SCSI one?
Where is your boot hard drive, on the IDE or the octagon?

Simplest option that I've had is to have nothing on the octagon, have a your boot hard drive as master on the internal IDE, and have the IDE CDROM as slave on the same IDE cable as the boot hard drive.  Then install IDEFix.  This will pick up the CDrom and install a driver in devs/dosdrivers and it will call it CD0:   There will also be a c:idefix command in s/startup-sequence. In your s/startup-sequence file make sure you have a binddrivers command.  Then install a hard drive to the octagon if you want.