IDE CD-ROM on A1200

[alx]

The cables are correctly attached as far as I can see - while there's nothing on the adaptor to key in the IDE cable, it matches the orientation of the (working) ones coming from the A1200 and HDD, and I still doubt that I'd be able to eject the drive from software if something like that was wrong.

I've ran FindDevice (this is in utilities/IDEFix for me) and it's listed (unit 3, combo48x) under both scsi.device and atapi.device.  I've tried clicking the atapi device before and pressing "use" which doesn't seem to have done anything.

Cheers

[ZeBeeDee]

Ok ...

Checked the jumper settings on the drives?

I'm running out of possible solutions and checks here unless it's the interface at fault which seems unlikely.

[alx]

Yep - the drive's set to slave (when it was set to master the Amiga didn't recognise it at all and complained it was missing).

[ZeBeeDee]

run through your hardware setup ... list what drives are connected to where on the interface

[alx]

The CD-ROM is connected to the top of the two connectors.  The cables from the mobo and internal HDD both look identical so it's hard to tell which one's which, although if you think it'll help I can take off the lid and see which one goes where.  From this old image however, the upper of the two cables (connected to the higher of the two plugs on the adaptor) seems to go to the HDD.  The A1200 itself is a fairly vanilla KS3.0 machine with an 030@40Mhz card fitted with 8MB of Fast RAM.

[ZeBeeDee]

I'd say the interface is failing then. Your setup looks correct from here.

Only way to tell for sure is to get hold of another interface and try that.

Addendum: May 9th 2007 - A working interface has just come into my possession. PM me if you want to give it a try.