...and so the story goes on to tell you all about the boy who finally got around all the earlier problems and found a way to get the harddrives and other devices to be recognized by the FastATA.
Now there's just one small problem left. MAJOR, that is.
I've installed the drivers, and ATA3Prefs finds both the Primary Master ATA HD, and the Secondary Master ATAPI DVD. AllegroCDFS makes a dosdriver, CD2, and puts it into the Devs/Dosdrivers catalouge. Now, so far everything works fine... BESIDES THE D*MN DVD NOT WORKING AT ALL! It doesn't matter how much I fiddle around, nothing happens when I put a CD into the DVD, and Workbench refuses to see that CD2 actually is mounted, although it says "Device already mounted" when trying to mount it again.
The device is simply not accesable although recognized and, supposedly, mounted!
WHY IS THIS? WHY DOESN'T ANYTHING WORK! WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH THE S*IT!
Oh, and by the way, the DVD is fine. When attached to the internal IDE-interface, together with, say a HD, it works just fine with the help of IDEFix'97.
BUT I NEED IT TO WORK WITH THE FASTATA! Othwervise I won't be able to install the damn drivers for my PCI-cards from the Mediator CD.