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Amiga 1200 CDROM Setup Step by Step
« on: November 08, 2014, 03:37:22 AM »
Hello everyone iam trying to setup my Amiga 1200 using the pcmcia Interface. I have tried the Squirrelscsi interface with external scsi cdrom no workiee. I have tried the alphadata pcmcia interface I can't get the IdeFix97 to finish installing it locksup about half way through the process.

Please someone help with step by step instructions!!

my 1200 OS3.1 sometimes 3.9 with my sd card apollo Accellerator 040 25mhz 32 megs ram. 040 fpu. using a pc monitor w/ indivision AGA MK2.

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Re: Amiga 1200 CDROM Setup Step by Step
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2014, 06:20:07 AM »
I found the manual for the Squirrell SCSI controller.
 https://ia601705.us.archive.org/22/items/Squirrel_SCSI_User_Manual_1995_HiSoft_A1200/Squirrel_SCSI_User_Manual_1995_HiSoft_A1200.pdf

To set up a SCSI CD ROM is very easy with this manual.
 

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Re: Amiga 1200 CDROM Setup Step by Step
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2014, 09:51:30 AM »
I used to use the Alfa Data CD1200. It came with a driver disk which wasn't the full IDEFix but it looks like the later IDEFix package includes the tandempcmcia.device.

I tried using IDEFix last December when I moved both my HD and CD to work off the A1200 Internal IDE port and it kept hanging half way through. Someone else posted with a similar problem on Amiga.org at the same time so there are some conflicts.

You can get the original CD1200 install disk from: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/cd1200
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Re: Amiga 1200 CDROM Setup Step by Step
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2014, 10:56:39 AM »
What you need is :

Cd filesystem, like CacheCDFS or AmiCDFS, etc. to system:l folder
Correct device name, like IVS_SCSIpro.device
Unit number, easy way to get it is a sysinfo, chech devices from it. This is a susual problem.
CD0 or what ever number you want it to have on system:devs/dosdrivers

CD0 is a mount file it has a all device information, like this ->

/***************************************************************/
/* CacheCDFS mountlist entry © 1993 Elaborate Bytes, O. Kastl */
/***************************************************************/
FileSystem = L:CacheCDFS /* The name of the game */
Device = "scsi.device" /* Name of exec device driver */
Unit = 0 /* exec device unit */
Flags = 0 /* OpenDevice flags */
BlocksPerTrack = 351000 /* Unused */
BlockSize = 2048 /* True, but unused */
Mask = 0x7ffffffe /* Memory mask for direct read */
MaxTransfer = 0x1000000 /* Maximum amount of bytes for direct read */
Reserved = 0 /* Unused */
Interleave = 0 /* Unused */
LowCyl = 0 /* Unused */
HighCyl = 0 /* Unused */
Surfaces = 1 /* Unused */
Buffers = 50 /* Number of cache lines */
BufMemType = 513 /* MEMF_PUBLIC|MEMF_24BITDMA */
BootPri = 2 /* Boot priority for MountCD */
GlobVec = -1 /* Do not change! */
Mount = 1 /* Mount it immediately */
Priority = 10 /* Priority of FileSystem task */
DosType = 0x43443031 /* Currently unused */
StackSize = 3000 /* Minimum stack required is 3000! */
Control = "MD=0 LC=1 DC=8 S L LV AL LFC=1 HR=.rsrc MSDOS MV"
/* The Control field is for special adjustments */
/* L/S convert all file/volume names to lowercase */
/* LV/S convert volume names to lowercase */
/* AL/S Auto-Lower converts only non-Amiga CDs */
/* LFC/N start converting at this character */
/* LC/N/A number of blocks per cache line */
/* DC/N/A number of cache lines for the data cache */
/* MD/N/A number of blocks, when starting direct read, not using */
/* the cache. 0 will be a reasonable default (LC*DC+1) */
/* S/S Do SCSI direct commands, no Trackdisk like commands! */
/* NC/S Do NOT use TD_ADDCHANGEINT, poll for DiskChange! */
/* M/S Issue a TD_MOTOR (OFF) command after read */
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Re: Amiga 1200 CDROM Setup Step by Step
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2014, 12:21:17 PM »
When installing did you tell it to start idefix?
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Re: Amiga 1200 CDROM Setup Step by Step
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2014, 05:06:53 AM »
Thanx for the info I got the Cd writable working, That disk is what i needed. i need to read the manual figure out how to make some cd's.

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Re: Amiga 1200 CDROM Setup Step by Step
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2014, 07:38:34 AM »
Thanx to Andy FC for the info on the disk It's what I needed to install the right files!!

man that was hard getting it started

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Offline AndyFC

Re: Amiga 1200 CDROM Setup Step by Step
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2014, 10:10:28 AM »
Glad you got it sorted. It's a very handy little controller and the only reason I stopped using it was because I wanted to use a PCMCIA network card and with my A1200 in a tower, it's not easy to swap them out.

Considering it is Mitsumi standard, not IDE, I never had a CD ROM which it didn't work with.
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