A4000D & IDE CDROM install

[EzdineG]

TjLaZer wrote:
I tried a .... I have a Amiga 4000 040, Kickstart 3.1.  I had AmigaDOS 3.1 at the time.

As did I.

I had to install the atapi.device and mount the CD0: with that device and it worked perfectly.  I tried AsimCDFS, AmiCDFS and CacheCDFS and unless I used atapi.device it would not work.  Am I the only one that needed it?  I remember being told by everyone on USENET that it would not work with stock scsi.device.

The DVD Rom is a Hitachi GD-5000 (originally thought it was a Pioneer.)  For the record, I don't even possess atapi.device, idefix97, AsimCDFS or AmiCDFS.  I went into the installation treating these devices like their SCSI equivalents in my 3000's.  I used OS 3.1 long enough to create a bootdisk with the 3.9 installer CD.  Perhaps the characteristics of my DVD Rom made it so?

Adrian

[adolescent]

I've never seen it work without an atapi.device either.  

Edit: but...  I just tried (with the correct emergency disk this time) and it worked.  I'm using OS3.9 CacheCDFS with SCSI.DEVICE unit 0 for my DVD/CD-RW combo.  Hmm, odd.  I've never had this system at 3.1 so I can't comment about the 3.1 driver.

[Michael_D]

Hi,

this only works with the OS3.5/3.9-emergency-disk.
This disk includes the "AmigaOS ROM Update" which is loaded
via "SetPatch".
With this Update the "scsi.device" gets an update, too.
So it can work with ATAPI-drives.
The ver. 40.12 (Kick 3.1) of "scsi.device" is only for harddrives!