Amiga 4000 - How to add a CDROM Drive?

[ShawnDude]

Alright, I'm slowly getting back into the Amiga groove.  I have this A4000 that I would like to add a CDROM drive to, but everything I have tried doesn't work.

The Amiga is a 4000D with Cyberstorm 060/50, 64MB on Cyberstorm, 16MB + 2MB on motherboard, 3.1 ROMs, and socketed Buster 9.  I have a 1.2GB IDE hard drive with WB3.1 installed.  I have tried to connect 2 different spare IDE CDROM drives up one at a time with my hard drive as master and CD drive as slave.  It will boot into Workbench.   I then installed the software from my Cyberstorm both the 060 libaries and SCSI utilities disks.  The SCSI disk has a CD filesystem setup on it that I installed and tried to get to recognize the CDROM drives, but I never would recognize the drives.

When I boot with the drive connected I get no icon on workbench and when I try to select the CD0 volume, I get not a dos disk. When I boot without the CD drive connected, I get a CD icon on the screen with something like CD0:Bad.

My question is for the cheapest method to either setup one of my existing CD drives or which CD drive and software to use.  I would like to be able to eventually get AOS3.9 (on CD therefore need CD access).  I also need to be able to read CD's which I burned from my PC.

Thanks.

[amiga4001]

Have had several cdrom drives attached to my A4000 without problems.
Think you be best of with a scsi cd rom drive and in my experience with a around 24 speed drive.
These ones make not to much noise and are reliable and fast.
But also the internal ide port of the motherboard can be used without problems.
That is if you use the atapi.device for cd-rom and zip etc..
You should also use a nice cdrom system like CacheCDFS.
Easy to set up and works all the time for scsi and ide drives.
succes!!

[ShawnDude]

Alright, I got my CDROM drive working.  I used IDEfix 97 and it detected the drive without any problems.  A real easy process I must say.  Formatted a bootable hard drive partition. Installed Workbench 3.1. Installed IDEfix 97 and CD's worked.  I have the hard drive set as master and CDROM set as slave.  CDROM drive is a Panasonic 4X CR-581-B.