Making a CD Drive work on an Amiga 2000

[tbarzso]

I have OS 3.1 freshly installed on an A2000 with a GVP 68040 card.  I have an NEC external SCSI CD ROM drive.  The GVP card sees the drive just fine.  I put in my 3.5 upgrade disc - or any disc for that matter - and the drive gets a busy light, but nothing mounts.  Any thoughts?  Do I need another cdfs?  I thought os 3.1 included one.   Thanks!

[Jeff]

OS 3.1 does include a primitive CDFS, enough to read a CD and install a better one:-) It will need to be configured for the GVP's SCSI device driver. Look at the tooltypes for the CD0: icon and they are probably set for scsi.device and the wrong unit number. I think it is gvpscsi.device for that controller. Sorry if you have already done this.  

[smerf]

Hi,

First you need the cd0: moved from storage into devs, then you need to check to see if the scsi terminating resistors are removed from you scsi card since your scsi is an external device. The last thing you need is to make sure your scsi cdrom player is set for device number 6 the last device in the string, you also have to set cd0: for device 6 in the icon or mount list. Make sure your cd0: is also set for scsi. Do not use device number 7 as this pertains to the scsi card itself.

This is the best that I can remember. Would actually have to break out my Amiga to confirm. Oh yes, don't forget to set the terminating resistor on your cdrom.

smerf

[tbarzso]

Success!  Between the both of you, it is up and running. Thanks so much!  I moved the cd0: into devs, changed to gvpscsi, and changed the device to 6.  Cheers!