Setting Up A CD-ROM on an A1200

[Robert17]

Hey guys n gals, right I've got all my amiga gear out and I've got Amicdfs on my hard drive now, now about to install the squirrel scsi drivers from the disk, what do I need to do with the AmiCDFS files?

Thanks

Robert

[pjhutch]

When you install it, specify squirrelscsi.device and the SCSI ID number of the CDROM drive, this will set up the CD0 DosDriver to use your CDROM.

[SamuraiCrow]

First of all, follow the directions for installing AmiCDFS.

Second of all, edit the CD0 file in your Devs:dosdrivers/ directory so that the devicename = squirrelscsi.device or whatever it's supposed to be and set unit= where the unit number is the SCSI ID number which should NOT be 0 and possibly not 7 since that was used as an expansion port on some Macintoshes but might not be a problem on Amiga.

[Robert17]

The copy of amicdfs I have has no directions or installation files  :-?

[SamuraiCrow]

There should have been an AmigaGuide file that came with it.  Did you download the latest version off the Aminet?

[Robert17]

Yeah  but I'm not sure if the Un-LHA utility I used on my pc did a very good job, also I tranferred it using crossdos...

[SamuraiCrow]

I'd leave the unarchiving to the Amiga since CrossDos hacks off all the filenames to 8.3 characters.  Download LHA for Amiga here.

[cgutjahr]

Don't extract archives under Windows. Move the wholoe archive to the Amiga and use Amiga LhA to extract it.

If an Archive is too big for one disk, use a split/join type program that is available for Windows and AmigaOS (like HJSplit) to break the archive into smaller pieces before transferring it.

[Robert17]

okie dokie it looks like AmiCDFS.Lha and Lha.run will both fit onto a floppy anyways, I'll try it later and let you guys know, not sure if it's a hardware problem either though because scsi mounter doesn't ever detect anything on the bus  :-?

Robert