New install can not get CD access - HELP! **UPDATE**

[Invisix]

Hey all, 1st off my specs are listed below, I have an Amiga 4000. I formatted my Amiga HD to install Amiga OS 3.5, however I am runing into some really bad difficulty.

I installed Workbench 3.1, then I goto install AsimCDFS 3.4 (old I know, but it's all I have!). It goes to the SCSI Inquiry utility  program or whatever it is called, and then all it lists is my harddrive! So I reinstall ASimCDFS and change the device to asimcdfs.device instead of scsi.device...  it's still a no go... because then the system "locks" up with a Mounting ASimCDFS... I'm totally bamboozled!  :-o

HELP! How the heck do I gain CD-Rom access so I can install Amiga OS 3.5 (until I buy 3.9)? :-? :-? :-? :-D

[Castellen]

Sounds like you need the IDEfix package, which comes on OS 3.5/3.9 or is available seperately.  I think there's a demo on Aminet too which will get you going.

It comes with CacheCDFS which I find works really well.

[stefcep]

i had this problem.  OS3.5 and 3.9 install a cd dos driver in devs/ dosdrivers,called cd0 or cd1.  if you drag this dosdiver over editpad in your dockbar you will see that it uses the cachecdfs filesystem and scsi.device or atapi.device.  these are incompatible with asimcdfs filesystem and asim_atapi.device:  you cannot have both a dosdriver from os3.5 or os3.9 AND asimcdfs in devs/dosdrivers, its either one or the other so put one of them in storage.   cachecdfs, the cd filesystem installed by os 3.5 allows you to mount multisession cd's but asimcdfs does not, BUT with asimcdfs you can read audio cd data as amiga files in various formats eg little endian (good for converting to mp3), big endian 8 bit aiff mono or stereo so these can be copied anywhere to hardrive.  you can also do this with utilities on aminet but i think its a nice touch that asimcdfs supports it automatically.  don't apologize about asimcdfs's age: its still one of the fastest most reliable systems..

[Thomas]

I'll never understand why people format their main boot partition without having another one or, generally, without being sure they come up again.

This is what the emergency disk is for. Before formatting the boot partition, you should create an emergency disk. It contains all CD-ROM, processor and graphics card drivers you need to boot.

Now you should clean up your CD-ROM driver files. You need an ATAPI driver and a CD-Filesystem which are compatible to each other. Either AsimCDFS and asim_atapi.device or CacheCDFS and atapi.device. The connection of the both is in the DosDriver. Load it into an editor (Ed or EditPad) and correct the entries.

Bye,
Thomas

[Invisix]

Thanks everyone for your help. All I needed to install was IDEFix. :-D