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Offline tokyoracer

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Re: Installing a cd-rom drive on my a4000
« Reply #14 from previous page: June 14, 2008, 04:31:20 PM »
I am having the same issues, so all I need to do is set the hard disk as 'Primary' and the CD-ROM as 'Slave' so that it can be used on 1 cable (connected to the motherboard)?
What if the HD has no jumper options?
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Re: Installing a cd-rom drive on my a4000
« Reply #15 on: June 14, 2008, 05:13:21 PM »
It seems since I tried to install the cd drive the other day that the flopppy drive is no longer functioning.

There is no familiar clicking sound, I wonder if I have perhaps connected it wrongly?  It has a power lead and the ide cable connected.

I have set the cd-drive to slave using the jumpers.


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Re: Installing a cd-rom drive on my a4000
« Reply #16 on: June 14, 2008, 07:20:22 PM »
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It seems since I tried to install the cd drive the other day that the flopppy drive is no longer functioning.

There is no familiar clicking sound, I wonder if I have perhaps connected it wrongly?  It has a power lead and the ide cable connected.

I have set the cd-drive to slave using the jumpers.


With regards to your floppy, check that the cable is pushed all the way in to the motherboard header and that the red dotted edge conforms to pin 1 on the header (looking from the front of the A4000, the dotted edge should be on the right).  Then make sure that the first floppy connector (the one in the middle of the cable) is plugged FIRMLY into the floppy drive (again with the red dotted strip to the right if you are looking at it from the front) and that you have a loose connector with lines 4, 5 and 6 twisted on the ribbon (this will be for DF1: if you ever connect another floppy drive and make sure that this isn't the end you have plugged into the motherboard).

As DoctorQ stated, install OS 3.1 on your hard drive.  Download and install IDEfix97 from Aminet (you'll need to register it) if you don't have OS3.9, during the installation tell it that the CD ROM is Unit 1 on SCSI.device, reboot, shove a CD in the drive and you should have an icon for the CD show up in the top left hand corner.

From experience, I can tell you that if you've been fiddling around with extra CD file systems then it might screw up the IDEfix installation.  You may want to do a fresh install:

Format hard drive
Install OS3.1
Install IDEFix97 (CD ROM is Unit 1 if set as slave)
Reboot
Insert CD
Cross your finger...
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Re: Installing a cd-rom drive on my a4000
« Reply #17 on: June 14, 2008, 07:48:41 PM »
Some small corrections/additions.

IDEfix97 doesn't need to be registred, but if you don't, you will have a pop up requester every now and then. Only question is if you can live with it or not :-)

If the CD drive doesn't work with scsi.device, use atapi.device from the IDEfix package. Remember to change the dosdriver if you change device driver.
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Re: Installing a cd-rom drive on my a4000
« Reply #18 on: June 14, 2008, 08:51:36 PM »
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Some small corrections/additions.

IDEfix97 doesn't need to be registred, but if you don't, you will have a pop up requester every now and then. Only question is if you can live with it or not :-)

If the CD drive doesn't work with scsi.device, use atapi.device from the IDEfix package. Remember to change the dosdriver if you change device driver.


My IDEFix install found it on the SCSI.device (I've just rechecked and I'm looking at it right now) and only shows the Hard Drive on the atapi.device.
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Re: Installing a cd-rom drive on my a4000
« Reply #19 on: June 14, 2008, 09:55:59 PM »
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My IDEFix install found it on the SCSI.device (I've just rechecked and I'm looking at it right now) and only shows the Hard Drive on the atapi.device.


Seems like you are right on the scsi.device thing, as I apparently have mixed something up. You can use a CD drive with the use of atapi.device, CacheCDFS and a dosdriver without the need of IDEfix. With IDEfix you can use scsi.device as device driver, and don't need to use atapi.device. I don't know if there are any differences using scsi.device instead of atapi.device.

Nevertheless I doubt that it really is your hdd that shows under atapi.device.
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Re: Installing a cd-rom drive on my a4000
« Reply #20 on: June 14, 2008, 10:30:15 PM »
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My IDEFix install found it on the SCSI.device (I've just rechecked and I'm looking at it right now) and only shows the Hard Drive on the atapi.device.


Seems like you are right on the scsi.device thing, as I apparently have mixed something up. You can use a CD drive with the use of atapi.device, CacheCDFS and a dosdriver without the need of IDEfix. With IDEfix you can use scsi.device as device driver, and don't need to use atapi.device. I don't know if there are any differences using scsi.device instead of atapi.device.

Nevertheless I doubt that it really is your hdd that shows under atapi.device.


Ah, who cares as long as it works.   :-D

It may have been the CD ROM that showed up, but I'm in the middle of a serious game of Lemmings 2 at the moment so I'll check later.  ;-)

Edit:

Yep, it was the CD ROM on the atapi.device (of course).  IDEfix97 scanned the SCSI.device and automatically installed the CD DOS driver for that.
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Re: Installing a cd-rom drive on my a4000
« Reply #21 on: June 14, 2008, 11:39:24 PM »
I didn't think the pins on the cd drive allowed you to physically fit the floppy drive cable to it, even if you tried?
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Re: Installing a cd-rom drive on my a4000
« Reply #22 on: June 14, 2008, 11:41:53 PM »
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swoslover wrote:
So I should be using the cable that connects to the hard drive not the floppy?


I didn't think it was possible to fit the floppy drive cable to the cdrom drive?
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Re: Installing a cd-rom drive on my a4000
« Reply #23 on: June 15, 2008, 12:01:12 AM »
Amiga Users are the best ever:)
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