Squirrel SCSI CD ROM Drive not working on A1200

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UNIT=3 !!! Other flags and tooltypes are OK.

 BTW: if you have a surf Squirrel, the install disk image is here

big time thanks to you!  mine just arrived today from across the atlantic w/no install disk and i needed this so bad!

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Alert: post has been hijacked by Amiga moron!

Seriously sorry wandeep.  It sounds like maybe you didn't get yours working.  You are a lot closer than I am though.  Your device is actually being read.  I have this really crummy CD drive I bought off Ebay that said in the ad it did SCSI and right on the CD-ROM it says "parallel CD-ROM."  It's H45 Technology Corp. Quick CD Parallel Port CD-ROM(yes I was dismayed to see that printed right on the case of the unit.  another poster informed me of the existence of an Amiga Parallel CD-ROM driver from Aminet, which is experimental and Amiga parallel I guess is pretty slow, haven't tried it yet.)  I got the PC drivers for it.  I got the Squirrel disks (and figured out how to decompress dms to adf with this nice BSD/Linux prog called xdms) and I do the "Surf-Install" from I'd guess it's disk 1 of this 4 disk set that I think originally came with Squirrel.  That goes fine.  Then I try "SCSI-Install" and I get this error: FOREACH: Can't examine file or drawer DOS Error Type: Unable to locate a file or drawer

It obviously wants some partition called FOREACH: but why?  I don't get why the SCSI-Install prog would do that.  It should just find the correct volume on the bootable Workbench: partition I would think.  Only other partition on my HD is Work: and that has all my games as well as other apps in it.  And strangely: I too get "device already mounted" when I click CD0 in DOSDrivers

Good luck figuring ANYTHING out from my post here.  I'll be very impressed if anyone knows what I should do.  At least this SCSI-Install asking for a partition it shouldn't problem solved would be nice so when I actually get a real SCSI CD-ROM it'll do something.

You never know.  I got it connected right.  Maybe this CD-ROM will work once I get SCSI-Install run proper.

Thanks for ANY type of attention to this post.

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Hooking a parallel port device up to a SCSI adapter sounds like a very bad idea, in addition to most assuredly not working it may be able to break things.

Yes that is obvious.  But this is supposed to work on Parallel or SCSI.  It may not.  The seller maybe just either was lying or thought since it was 25-pin Dsub that it'd work on SCSI.  I doubt it though.  I don't have the right adapter to hook it to my PC so I can't test it on a PC unless I get that.  Of course I could hook it to the parallel port on a PC as it is, just not the SCSI.  Please answer my question about why the SCSI-Install is giving me the error asking for some phantom partition called FOREACH:

see post above for this.  also, i am wondering since squirrel is a PCMCIA to SCSI adapter, why does it have 2 install programs on different disks: SCSI-Install and one called Surf-install.  It looks like there is 4 disks that came with this thing.  Of course the one I bought didn't have any software with it so I got it from another person here.  Just please if you know why SCSI-Install is asking for FOREACH: then answer.  If you don't know what that is then don't.  I guess I shouldn't have said I was an Amiga retard because I'm really not retarded enough to think a Parallel only device is going to work on a SCSI chain.

For most people who use Squirrel: did you do Surf-Install or did you do SCSI-Install?  Did you then just run SCSIMounter and your CD drive worked?  Help on this please

note: it's also got another disk that's for installing Jaz Drive devices but I'm not going to be using that of course.