IDE CD Rom

[Thomas]

It shouldn't hang, it should just fail to mount. The 3.1 IDE driver does not support CD drives. You need an additional ATAPI driver like the one included with IDEfix97.

[Thomas]

You can use atapi.device from the IDEfix package without registration. It just nags with questions. And you can throw it away once you have created the emergency disk for OS 3.9.

[Thomas]

so is there a way to access the CD Rom without IDEFix ?

No. Not on the internal IDE controller.

surly there is a way, people were using CD drives before IDEFix.

There were similar software packages from other vendors, for example the SpeedUp system made by VOB. Or you can use a third-party IDE controller which supports CD drives. Or a SCSI controller + SCSI CD drive.

The IDE driver of the internal IDE controller definitely does not support CD drives. You *need* another driver or another hardware.

Problem is the A4000 can't access the net until i can access the CD i have all my internet stuff on.

The Amiga can read PC floppies if you run PC0 from Storage/DosDrivers.

[Thomas]

Was it so that 3.1 has a CD.device ?? it is poor but works?

No. Only CD32 has the cd.device. WB 3.1 has a CD file system, but it is of no use if the IDE driver does not recognise CD drives.

But I ques that you need to download dc filesystem with PC and use 720kb disk to transfer it to your amiga.

An A4000 can read 1440KB disks, too.

OS 3.5-3.9 has a scsi device wich works wit IDE cd roms

He needs a CD driver to access the OS 3.9 CD. That's the problem here. Please read from the beginning before you reply.

ASIM CDFS is freeware now

No.

Xetec CDx

Is a file system only. Still needs ATAPI driver for the IDE bus.

Babel CDROMfs

Is a file system only. Still needs ATAPI driver for the IDE bus.