Squirrel SCSI CD ROM Drive not working on A1200

[PanterHZ]

First of all, remember that there were two versions of the Squirrel SCSI adapter made:

1. Surf Squirrel - which includes a serial port.
2. Squirrel - which does NOT include a serial port.

Make sure you have the correct install disk(s) for your adapter, you can find them by following this link:
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/squirrel

And remember - the CD0: icon information SHOULD look like this:
ACTIVATE=1
DEVICE=squirrelscsi.device
UNIT=3
FLAGS=1                 

With squirrelscsi.device as DEVICE - NOT cd.device, scsi.device or squirrel.device. The UNIT should also be set to 3 and not 0.

This is the CD0: icon information, but have you also looked at the actual mountlist? Just open CD0 in a text editor (like Ed), you can do this by entering the following in shell: Ed SYS:Devs/DOSDrivers/CD0

One important entry in this file is FILESYSTEM, make sure that the file mentioned here exists on your system (should be in Sys:L)

[PanterHZ]

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.

I strongly suspect that your CD drive indeed is a parallel port device and not a real scsi device, but I can understand why the seller maybe was mislead to think it was a scsi device since the Windows 9x PC it was connected to probably would have reported it to be a scsi device. It was this way it was possible to connect devices other than printers to the parellel ports of pc's back in the day - by pretending the pc had a scsi controller which the device was connected to.

As for the FOREACH: problem you mention, I don't think that it has anything to do with a missing volume, instead I think it refers to the type of problem it encountered in the install program. I assume you try to run the prog in shell, and if this is the case, try to cd to the directory with the SCSI-Install file before starting it.

[PanterHZ]

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.

SCSI-Install is for installing the actual SCSI port software.
Surf-install is for installing the serial port software.

And remember that unless you have a serial port on your squirrel adapter, you might have the wrong disks.