New member needs Help

[Tajmaster]

Hi Franko

Im pretty sure any standard IDE writer should do the job just fine and shouldnt set you back more than 20 quid or so. Maybe someone else can confirm this ?

With regards to releasing the software, you could always upload it to Aminet:

http://aminet.net/

And you could of course post a "news release" here on Amiga.org too.

You may also want to consider making your program open source in case you not longer have the time to continue it or someone wants to port it to OS4.

Also, its nice you are offering for free, much appreciated by those that will use it Im sure

Taj

[Tajmaster]

Hi Tajmaster

Thank's for your reply. I have purchased and had to return a couple of drives by LightOn and Samsung. Neither would work properly the Hard Disk light on my Amiga would stay on when using these drives and lock up access to the HD. The drives I am currently using are LightOn LH-20A models and both worked fine until one of them wore out. I am quite willing to give away the source code for my burner progs which are written in standard 68k using devpac (writing in 060 didn't have any speed increase). The progs when compiled are about 4k long and will burn any iso file onto any type of DVD media including Dual Layer, but I really need to find another DVD burner to do some final checking of the progs before I release them.

Franko

Im pretty sure you need IDEFix installing to stop that light/HD access thing. I remember needing that on my A1200 to install the CD drive on a 4 way IDE splitter.
Maybe one of the other members can verify this?

[Tajmaster]

Hi Tajmaster
 
I am using the Elbox FastATA/MKIII A1200 card & FastATA'99 software (last update ever released). The problem seems to be with all the new IDE drives that are on sale.
 
SCSIUTIL shows my current drives to be "ANSI Approved - SCSI-2"
 
Whereas on any new drive's I have tried SCSIUtil Show these as "ANSI Approved - ?3 undefined format 03"
 
I can only assume that this means these drives are using SCSI-3 and that the software for interfacing with the board can only handle SCSI-2.
 
The Amiga I am using is A 1200/ Blizzard 060/PPC 60Mhz/240Mhz /256Mb Ram/FastATA MKIII/Subway USB/1TB Total HDs/.
 
There must be someone out there who has purchased a new dvd burner recently for an A1200 setup, or am I just the last of a kind who stubbornly vows never to use a PC...
 
Cheers
Franko

I take it you are setting the devices to master/slave as appropriate? Im pretty sure cable select doesnt work on Amiga's.
Also, are the devices connected on the same channel or are you using them on seperate channels? (in which case both should be set to master)
 
There nothing wrong with using a PC but this isnt exactly the sort of place you get people who agree with that lol
 
Cmon guys anyone got any suggestions Franko can use?
 
Franko, if you dont get anywhere here you could also try posting on the Amibay forum and also EAB