Squirrel interface and CD-Rom how to Install?

[MickTheLip]

Thanks for all your info.When installing it gets as far as the window which lists the Squirrel SCSI in the left column but does not show up the CDrom in the right column.The CDrom opens and closes on pressing the eject button and after closing spins up and the light comes on briefly.My Power CD rom is the one with the external power supply but it has been replaced with a multivoltage one.Does anybody know what voltage the origional power supply was?It places an Icon for CD0 in my devs draw but altering it to the numbers suggested still doesnot recognise my CDrom!!

[A4000_Mad]

@ twizzle

Sorry if this duplicates what you have said but your post was not here when I went off to continue working on this in an A1200 Desktop.



Hi Mick,

Well I did threaten to return :lol: You could have a hardware problem by the sounds of it, but a ramble and a few screenshots might help you or somebody somewhere with something


My one of these.............




.......... plugs into the bottom socket of this Sony CDrom.





I have no jumpers to set and nothing goes in the top socket (yours is probably a lot different by the sounds of it and may indeed need a terminator). I can only push in the tiny buttons to increase or lower the unit ID number. It is currently set to 3.




In the above screengrab I have used 'FindDevice' taken out the 'IDE Fix 97' drawer in an A4000 Desktop. I simply ticked the box 'Show All Device Types' and then clicked on 'Scan'. On the left you can see that the CDrom is showing up as a 'squirrelscsidevice' and on the right as Unit 3 in the list. You might want to *check* that you do have 'squirrelscsi.device' in Workbench:Devs

NOTE that I have not used 'FindDevice' for any setting up purposes. It is just a good way of checking that your A1200 can see your CDrom on the PCMCIA slot. *All* you need to get your CDrom working is a CD0 icon in Workbench:Devs/DOSDrivers that is set to the correct device type and unit number.





The above screengrab shows what Amiduffer was telling you about. i.e. clicking once on the CD0 icon, selecting information from the menu and changing the unit number and device type.
However, it appears that doing this only changes the 'CD0.info' file and not the mounlist of CD0 itself. Below is the mountlist viewed in DirectoryOpus. So you need to make sure that the bottom two lines are correct in something like DirectoryOpus as well. i.e.  

*  Device = squirrelscsi.device

*  Unit = 3


Oh... the icon CF0 that is also in the screengrab is for working a Compact Flash card in the PCMCIA slot.






I guess I should finish off with a screengrab showing the icons of an inserted OS3.9 CD. And for newbies or those interested, the great game icons are what you get when you use the WHDLoad installers :-)





Possibly remotely interesting stuff:-

The screengrabs were taken using CyberGrab on a ToolsDaemon menu so as not to take a grab showing the prog itself. The ILBM screengrabs were then loaded into PPaint and coverted to PNG with maximum compression. The PNG files were then put onto a Compact Flash card and taken to a USB card reader on this PC. (I had to remove the Squirrel and CDrom so as to be able to insert the Compact Flash card into the PCMCIA slot of the A1200 Desktop of course)


Well that's my brain cell exhausted for today.

G'night :sleep:


A4000 Mad

[MickTheLip]

Thanks for all your information.For some reason the software is not reading the CDrom.This shows up when I run the CD configeration program which is included inthe Squirrel software.The program inserts a CD0 into the devs draw and whose information I've changed to what your screengrab shows but it has the added line of FLAGS=1 Each attempt of reinstalling the the software rewrites the CD0 information back to

            Activate=1
            Device=cd.device
            UNIT=0
            FLAGS=1

[MickTheLip]

Looking at the back of my Power CDrom it is not too different.Mine has a powerpack input 2sets of audio sockets and the unit number is changed by jumpers on the CDrom itself.The manual says that the CD rom is suposed to be terminated internally and the unit number is set as 3.I am very suspicious of the drive being brcken but most drives show up even if they cannot read the CD don't they

[A4000_Mad]

Yes a drive with no CD inserted or one that cannot read a CD due to a faulty lens prehaps, should still show up...... unless it is completely broken.

I've just sent FindDevice and a copy of the CD0 that works my CDrom to the e-mail address in your profile as LHA files. Hope that is of some help :-)

Hmmm... After looking again at the mountlist in the screengrab above, prehaps you should just check that you have 'CDFileSystem' in the L drawer of your Workbench as CD0 will look for it.

FileSystem = L:CDFileSystem


A4000 Mad

[Zero]

I had a similar problem with mine.
I got the install disk (latest one) here;
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?amiga=1200&cat=scsi

I installed in novice mode and it worked, been fine ever since!
As a side note, it only ever works automatically if you install in novice mode, in my experience of the squirrel.

I hope this helps...

 :-D

[twizzle]

hi look at a4000 mad`s piccys,in the find device window you can see the scsi cd is listed No3  sony click once on it & save.
when finnished change CDO to CD3 save.
cd icon info tooltypes UNIT=0 change to UNIT=3 save.
you wont see a scsi cd icon permanly on your wb screen until you put a cd in , :-)

there is a CD0 icon in your scsi drawer this is for using CD32 games.
in disc 1 there are all the readme files needed to help you setup your device.

[MickTheLip]

Thanks to everybody for all your help but sorry to say I now believe the CDRom is broken.I am thinking of removing the CDRom out of the case and installing a Sony CDRW in its place.I'm thinking that the origional interface found in the case would plug straight into my CDRW.I could then use the terminator on the other socket.Will have to check first to see if I can alter or change the number on the CDRW I presume.

[twizzle]

hi, dont condem your scsi cd yet?
having had the same problem a few weeks ago,
i found that my scsi connector was faulty :-(
luckily i had a spare to try and my cd was then recognized
& now works :-)

 (hopefully my friend can repair the faulty 1)

[jimbo100]

Make sure you haven't bent some pins in the PCMCIA slot.  This certainly happens with the Surf Squirrel as it doesnt quite line up with the slot on the 1200.

[MickTheLip]

The software recognises the Squirrel interface so I would think that end of things at the PCMCIA are fine.I'm now looking for another SCSI CD/RW to see if that will work.If I can get an external one all the better as I'll have spares to play around with.Going to have to wait on EBay as getting one from around this area is hopeless.

[MickTheLip]

In the meantime I'm going to reinstall everything from scratch.It's at this point I realise another possible problem.I was told it was OK to install Workbench 3.1 on my 1200 which has 3.00 roms.I read on a Ebay sellers auction that the Squirrel needed to be installed on 3.1 roms.This sounds wrong as it can also be used on a A600 in all the documents I've read.I've got a set of 3.1 roms which I can install if necessary but I was going to wait untill I got another SCSI CDrom or better still a CDRW.

[rkauer]

You DON'T NEED 3.1 ROMs to run a Squirrel.

I've had one once upon a time. But running WB 3.1 on 3.0 ROMs could make a mess on your handlers....

Try install a clean 3.0 OS before any funny modifications.