Problems installing cd rom drive on amiga 600

[amigaboy]

Hi - I am having problems installing a cdrom drive on my amiga 600 which is using workbench 2.1

I ve installed the driver to my harddrive and I have also created a boot disk

When the drive is recognised i get the following icon

PC0:?

When I click on this icon I get the following message

The icon(s) have no default tool

Anyone able to help?

[amigaboy]

Sorry for not providing the right info - basically I have a pioneer cd rom drive which i bought from ebay this week.

I am connecting it to my amiga 600 using a squirrel SCSI interface which has a PCMCIA card.

The brand name on the user manual is "Squirrel SCSI" by Hisoft -

The brand name on the installation disk is "Power cd rom"

I have never used a cdrom with an amiga before and just wrongly thought that the PCO:? reference was refering to the cd rom -

Is there any extra information I need to supply to help get this drive working.

[amigaboy]

Yes when i installed the software I have the following

Devs/DosDrivers/ called CD0

When I click on the CD0 icon - I get the message already mounted

The CD drive is the only thing in the SCSI chain. I think the CD drive is properly terminated - I have an external terminator which I have put on the cd drive to terminate the chain.

I will try to edit it in a text editor to the same number as my drive -

After I do this will the cd load from switching on the amiga? Or how do I load cdroms?

Chris

[amigaboy]

Hmmm - its still not working - going back to Carlos' post I have checked the following:


The complete driver set for a CDRom will typically consist of

1) A DOSDriver (basically a text file with configuration information), which is the one I mention above

I have the CDO driver located in Devs/DosDrivers/ called CD0

When I click on the CD0 icon - I get the message already mounted

2) A .device file (the actual hardware driver). This should live in Devs directory and be called something like squirrelscsi.device in your case (not sure about the exact name)

I will need to check this but I have a SCSI mounter program which tells me the following

unit   Device     Type                    REV       Cap              status
 0  -  Pioneer   - Cd-rom DR-124X    1.01      unknown        not ready

Is the last part telling me Status not ready significant?

Just checked I do have a file in this folder called squirrelscsi

3) A filesystem driver. Something like CacheCDFS or similar (not sure what your system came with). This would typically have a file in the L directory.

I have CDFilesystem - when I click on this i get a command box with CDFilesystem already typed in - I click on OK and nothing happens

Apologises for my lack of knowledge - I thought it would be easy to use - install drivers and plug into PCMCIA - Your help with this problem is greatly appreciated.

[amigaboy]

The contents of the CD0 file is as follows:

Filesysytem: L:CDFilesystem
Flags: 0
Surfaces : 1
Sectorspertrack : 1
Sectorsize: 2048
Mask = 0X7ffffffe
Max Transfer = 0X100000
reserved = 0
interleave =0
lowcy1 = 0
highcyl = 0
buffers = 5
buffermem type = 0
stack size = 1000
priority = 10
globevec = -1
dos type = 0X43443031

device  = scsi.device
unit = 2

[amigaboy]

This is a really silly question but how can I change these last two lines

Anyway, try changing the last 2 lines as follows:

device = squirrelscsi.device
unit = 0

I am using workbench 2.1 and I can't find a simple text editing program - I read the file using View but I can't seem to edit text - Silly question I know but I have only just got back into the amiga scene - originally had an amiga 500 as a teenager back in the 1990s - then I had workbench 1.3 with notepad but to be honest i mainly used it for games- Is there a utility on workbench 2.1 which will enable me to change these last two lines of cd0?

[amigaboy]

Also remeber that the newer version of Squirrel SCSI (the PCMCIA controller) don't work on A600 (the version also known as "Surf Squirrel").

"Old Squirrel" is a little beige/white box. "Surf" version is a larger black plastic box (this one will not work on A600).

Is this correct? I have attached picture of item i am using.

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[amigaboy]

Hmmm - I am still having no joy with this - I am concerned that the picmcia card is damaged on the last hole on the right hand side of the bottom row.  Whenever I connect it to my amiga it appears to bend the pin.  I then have to straighten with it to use my picmcia memory card which I use to transfer adf images.

Am I correct in thinking this might be the cause of my problems?