Mixed up drivers

[Thomas]

If your problem is gone without IDEfix, why do you want to activate IDEfix ?

To answer your question: use your favourite text editor to load s:startup-sequence. One of the first lines should be

SetPatch QUIET

Change this to read

SetPatch QUIET SKIPROMUPDATES "scsi.device"

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

You don't need IDEfix if you only have two IDE devices without a 4-way adapter. And if your CD-ROM is the only device on the second channel of a 4-way adapter, the only file from IDEfix you need is atapi.device, nothing else. The full IDEfix package is only needed if you want to run a HDD on the second channel of the 4-way adapter.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

If you want to get a walktrough, you first have to tell us where you want to walk through. Where are you now (hardware config, software installed) and where do you want to get ?

Your posts sound as if you already have OS3.9 installed. How did you do that if your CD-ROM does not work ?

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

A1200Power wrote:
Hi Thomas,

As i was aware of the problem concerning the mix up with the drivers.

Here is how i did it.

- Formatting the 4gig partition using the workbench 3.1.
- Installing workbench 3.1.
- Installing idefix 97' for cd-rom activation.
(there are no problems yet because i didn't format the 16gig yet)
- Creating a RESCUE DISK os3.9 (it uses the idefix for cd-rom acces)
- Booting with install disk from 3.1 again and format the 4 gig partition.

- No i do a clean install using the RESCUE DISK. I do not copy the cdrom drivers to the harddisk because they cause the problem.

- After the 1st reboot i can acces the 16gig partition and format it.

- Then i install the cyberstorm MK1 & cybergraphics drivers for the hardware.

From THIS point on i need some sort of guide.

Thanx for the support allready.

Well, IMHO it is not a good point to continue from here. I'd like to restart from the top and jump in after the third step (Installing IDEfix for CDd-ROM activation). You should install the CSMK1 and CGX drivers here. It is important that the 68060 drivers are copied to the emergency disk and it is handy if the CGX drivers are copied either.

However, you still conceal your hardware configuration, so I cannot decide whether you need IDEfix or not with OS3.9. Where is your CD-ROM drive connected to ?

Assuming that your CD drive is one of two IDE devices and you don't have a 4-way adapter, then you don't need IDEfix. So please create a new emergency disk and when you are asked if you use IDEfix, answer with "no". Before you start from the disk the first time, edit df0:devs/dosdrivers/emergency_cd and change device=atapi.device into device=scsi.device.

Now you should have a working emergency disk without IDEfix drivers. You can boot from the disk, partition and format your HDD and install OS3.9. You shouldn't need to use WB3.1 any more.

If you have a 4-way adapter and your CD-ROM drive is connected to its second channel (which means the unit number in df0:devs/dosdrivers/emergency_cd is 2 or 3), do the same as above but instead of editing emergency_cd, copy atapi.device to df0:devs.

Bye,
Thomas