Cd Rom on A2000 Question

[Wain]

If you're really stuck, you can always get a NULL-modem cable and connect your PC to your amiga via the serial port and use a program such as transdisk to transfer files over (or if the files are small, you can route them to RAM-DISK via the TYPE command, but this command has buffer limitations)

I would really only recommend this as a last resort however as it can be very frustrating to get set up properly, and the file transfer is SLOW.

[levelLORD]

@dansilvester

Hi,

here is a link for aminet, it is working just fine for me:

http://www.aminet.net/

On the left, you will see links, dirs and search field. Just type your's search criteria, like amicdfs and it will display files for you. Browse thorugh dirs section, you will find a lots of useful stuff.

Here is the link for lhA archiver for amiga,

http://lha.warped.com/Downloads.html

Go for exe version.

If you are not sure how to use command line for lhA, go to

http://www.ghisler.com/

That is shareware file manager for windows and it is able to unpack your lhA files. You still need 720K floopy drive. If you are going to unpack under windows, unpack the whole archive, copy some of it on a floppy, move it Amiga, erase files, go back to win, copy rest of the files and so on, but I think that is not going to be a problem and unpacked files should fit fine on that one floppy, at least for the cdrom drivers.

For a crossdos, check this out:

http://www.l8r.net/technical/t-crossdos.shtml

I found that searching the net with google, that is always a good way to find useful informations, or whatewer you are looking for.

www.google.com

And at the end, like Piru said, it will be very good for you to find somebody in your area who know how things works, and just explain for you, plain and simple. Also, always read read.me files

Take care dude,

levelLORD

[amigau]

does OS 2.04 have the PC0: device in Devs/storage like in OS 3.0?  because if it did, arguably you could just drag that into Devs and then reboot and the Amiga should 'just read' the PC disk automatically, provided it's not a 1.4MB hd floppy - that would require the rarer A4000 HD Amiga floppy drive to pull off....

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[dansilvester]

levellord:

Thanks alot for your help, I will try that!

amigau:
No, my 2.04 workbench does not appear to have a storage dir in the devs folder.

Thankyou!

[Karlos]

@dansilvester

That would be a Devs drawer in your Storage drawer.

On floppy systems, Storage is usually a disk. On HD systems, it is a drawer in your Workbench partition.

I'm not sure about versions but I first saw the Storage disk / drawer in OS3.0. I had 2.05 for my A600 and cant recall if it had crossdos or not :-?

[Dr_Righteous]

First, I'm assuming your A2000 came with the GVP A2008 HC+8 scsi board. You need the latest GVP scsi drivers, found here. Then, download AmiCDFS, found here.

You'll need to extract the GVP drivers to a floppy by decompressing the DMS archive using XDMS, found here. This will give you an ADF disk image which can be transferred to floppy with tracktool.

Each of these tools is pretty self explainitory in terms of usage... Run the program and it'll tell you what to do.

Once you've made the GVP disk, run the installer... Select all the defaults. Extract AmiCDFS to a folder on your harddrive, and run it's installer.

When done, reboot.

Then, modify the CD0: file that comes with AmiCDFS, with the lines device=gvpscsi.device and unit=(the scsi id of the cdrom drive). Place the CD0: file in the workbench:devs/dosdrivers folder... Reboot again, and your CDROM drive should be working!

If you're still having trouble, send me a private message, and I'll give you more precise instructions. I know how it is, since I had to figure all this out myself with my A2000 and A4000  :-D

[Athlon]

LG is the only brand I use for CD ROM