Read CD-R in A1200

[neofree]

Hello,

I have a PC with a writable CD-ROM drive and an Amiga 1200 with a 2X SCSI external CD-ROM drive.  I want to download programs for my Amiga on my PC and then write them to CD and then read that CD on my A1200...

Well, I have WB 3.0, so I ended up downloading a program called  "AmiCDROM" on Aminet.  This allows me to read my CD's I made.  But, whenever I try to copy files from these CD's to my Amiga hard drive, they fail saying something like "Destination was deleted".

If I try extracting an LhA archive that is on one of these disks, some files will go through and others give I/O errors.  

I wrote the disks at 4X to ensure quality, even though my drive is capable of 24X.  I can read my disks fine in other machines and have tried several disks.  The same CD-Rom drive worked to read Video Toaster software on my A2000 not too long ago.

I am using Nero to write the disks, and tried using ISO9660 format with Joliet turned on and off, with short filenames, etc.

Any ideas?

Neofree

[Kronos]

with a 2X SCSI external CD-ROM drive

Thats an quite old drive !!!
The error-message sounds like the CD sends corrupted data.

May be that it doesn't like the used brand of CD-Rs or no CD-R at all.

Try to copy files from a "normal" CD to check that.

You might also check temination and power-supply.

What kind of controller are you using ? Has the CD an extra PSU ?

Maybe a SCSI termination problem?

Also if it only seems to happen with larger files you could try lowering the MaxTransfer value in your CD-ROM drive mountlist.

[Kurt]

more than likely the CDFS you downloaded
can't read juliet formatted disks.
so it defualts to ISO9660.
end result is names with 8 plus three formating.
example "theisanamigafile.info" becomes thisisan.inf
either burning the CD in Rock Ridge format or use a different
CDROM FS
try amicdfs240.lha or a old copy of asimware cdfs
BTW 3.1 is allot more compatible with older software and fastram
is added correctly so you have more chip ram.
I definately recommend you get at least 3.1

[Kronos]

@Kurt

I don't think he would be able to "see" the files if the CD had the
wrong format. Must be some kind of read-error.

When I had my A1200 (with 3.0) I used a pre-IDE Mitsumi on a
PCMCIA-Contoller. CD-R were nothing more than a wet dream back
than, and when they finally appeared the disks were often unreadable
in older drives.

I even got a 16xTEAC here that will make nothing but trouble when I
feed it with a certain brand of CD-Rs.

[neofree]

Thank you for your responses.  I will first try tweaking settings with AmiCDROM, then AmiCDFS.  I am already not using Joliet when burning the CD's, but dont have an option for the Red Rock format, or whatever it was.  I'm already burning at 4X, which has shown to make the disks more compatible in the past.  Another thing I might do is to put the same file over and over again on the disk to see if it likes one of them at least.  If I could just get some freeware Internet software that didn't have 30 minute time out, I could just download these things instead.  (I am using Miami and AWeb, both have 30 minute limit since they are demos.)

Thanks,

Neofree

[neofree]

Thought you guys would like to know that I got this to work by using the CD Burning software that is built into Windows XP!  Believe it or not, it made readable disks, where as Nero did not!

Neofree

[odin]

That's amazing! And here I was thinking that Nero was the best of the CD burning stuff on PC=). But then again that's the only one I've really used.