Hi,
I have a problem with CDROM drive in my A4000D. I know this has been discussed to death, but I really don't know what to do.
When I bought the Amiga it had 3.9 installed on a 15GB IDE drive and a working CDROM drive. A few weeks later (during my experimenting
) the system crashed and 3 of the 4 partitions were not recognised any longer (including the system partition). I was going to scrap the old harddrive eventually anyway so decided to utilize a spare 4GB Microdrive and install the OS on it.
Since that incident my CDROM drive does not work - HDToolbox doesn't see it - I tried 3.9, stock 3.1 floppy and Bloodwych's ClassicWB 3.1. I thought the problem was the CF adapter so I connected the old harddrive and reinstalled OS 3.9, but nothing changed. I ordered a new IDE cable from Amigakit, but still nothing. I have 3 similar Teac CDROM drives like the one that was there - tried all of them - they all work in a PC, but not in the Amiga. I tried different molexes, jumpers (master, slave, cable select), with or without a harddrive or floppy, but I got nothing. I though about the onboard IDE controller malfunctioning, but both the HDD and CF adapter work without a hitch. I'm really at my wits' end.
Do you have any suggestions about what might be the problem.
Thanks in advance.
PS: I don't actually need the CDROM drive that much, but without it I can't update 3.9 with Boing bags and I just want to know what's happening...
