OS 3.9 is Up and Running, but...

[MiAmigo]

Thanks for the great help everybody. My mistake in my original installation was creating an 'OS39' directory, and installing to it. My bad, but I was thinking of Windows, and how there's a Windows install directory...
Anyway, everything is fine, now, the OS is running. (Haven't had a chance to play with it yet, thought). Now, I do have another little problem with my CD-ROM. Its an external, and when I tried to boot up (even under Workbench 3.1) with it already powered up, my machine would hang on boot. Of course, if I booted with the drive off, the machine couldn't see it. I tried using my terminator plug, but that was somehow able to keep the machine from booting, even when the CD drive the plug was attached to was off! The way I boot up now is this: First, I boot up with the drive on, the system hangs, then I do a CTRL-Amiga-Amiga, and reboot. The machine then boots just fine, with the CD drive up, running and available. My SCSI devices numbers are as follows G-Force Accelerator #7, hard drive, #0, CD drive, #2.The accelerator's # is preset, and the CD is the last device in the scuzzy chain. Currently, I am not able to use my terminator plug on it, because of the aforementioned problem. :-?

[kengur]

This is the usual problem: Amiga boots too fast and the drive isn`t capable to get in the working state on time (this happens only when turnig computer ON). When you reset the machine, the drives are (usually) already operating at their working speeds and are ready to respond to Amiga`s boot sequence. So, get use to reset Amiga after turning ON.

[neofree]

May be tottally off but I vaguely remember running into this before...  I think some SCSI cards have a jumper for this problem..  Also, cant you just bring up the boot menu and wait there till it's spinned up? or configure the boot menu to always appear, allowing you to always wait for it to spin up?

Seems to me there is at least 1-2 other fixes as well.. another is you could boot from floppy but configure the floppy to load everything from hd so it isnt slow

[Thomas]

@neofree: he is talking about a CD-ROM drive. It does not spin up and it does not help to boot from floppy.

@MiAmigo: I'd first suggest to move the CD icon from Devs/DosDrivers to Storage/DosDrivers, so that it is not mounted automatically. If the machine then boots, double click the icon to activate it manually. If it still does not hang, try to move it from Storage/DosDrivers to WBStartup. Perhaps it works better there.

Oh, and if it's called EMERGENCY_CD you should rename it to CD0. Short names are better.

Bye,
Thomas

[MiAmigo]

Thanks. I'll try moving it around, and see what happens.

[MiAmigo]

Well, I tried moving it to all the suggested locations, and it still hangs up on a 'hard' reboot. Must be something about the drive itself. Anyway, I finally settled on keeping it in the wbstartup folder, because there, at least I don't the 'CD2:uninitialized' error message. However, I am now in the process of trying to figure out what the 'A SCSI command error has occurred' message, every time I try to play a music CD. I'm looking into my mount file, the control options, and also, some info I found on GVP controllers being prone to this type of error. Trackdisk may solve the problem, but it seems to bring with it a lot of restrictions. Onward. :idea:

[artman]

Keep tinkering with it, it'll come together soon. Getting a CD drive in my A2000 drove me absolutely NUTS! until I figured out about the drive ID list or something like that.  Once I got it going, it's been great ever since, never had any trouble whatever.  Good luck and best regards...Art

[K7HTH]

Getting an IDE/SCSI CDROM to fully work (e.g. multimedia) with Amigas (without a Budda) is one intriguing subject worth exploring here.