Deneb, Poseidon, USB<->SATA and a DVD drive

[ajk]

Hey guys,

I have an A4000 and thought I would use a SATA DVD drive connected to the Deneb via an adapter. The adapter itself is recognized fine, but I'm unsure as to how I need to configure Poseidon to mount the actual drive. Do I need to make a mountlist and stick it to DosDrivers/, or should the drive be mounted automatically? At the moment when I put a disc in, the drive does spin up and appear to do something, and there is clearly some CPU load apparent in Workbench, but I never get a volume icon.

Thanks!

[mfilos]

Never done that, but I guess it certainly needs a device declaration in order to mount it.
For example, UMSD device (under Storage) exists for USB mass storage devices using L:Fat95 handler and usbscsi.device
I guess something equivalent using L:CacheCDFS for example and usbscsi.device (dunno if any other class creates a different device) would be ok to test.

Chris can answer better though

[Xanxi]

It will mount as soon as you insert a readable media, as long as you have a proper filesystem in L:

[bbond007]

Hey guys,

I have an A4000 and thought I would use a SATA DVD drive connected to the Deneb via an adapter. The adapter itself is recognized fine, but I'm unsure as to how I need to configure Poseidon to mount the actual drive. Do I need to make a mountlist and stick it to DosDrivers/, or should the drive be mounted automatically? At the moment when I put a disc in, the drive does spin up and appear to do something, and there is clearly some CPU load apparent in Workbench, but I never get a volume icon.

Thanks!

Your first step is to make sure you have some sort of CD file-system installed. 3.9 will come with one.... I'm not sure which one I installed on my 3.1.. It may have been CacheCDFS

I don't believe you need a mountlist. in devs/dosdrivers(or possibly storage/dosdrivers which you should move to /devs/dosdrivers)  you should have an icon like CD0 or CD1 or something. Select "info" on that icon and configure the tooltypes. you probably just need to set the device and device #.

I was able to get use a USB CD-ROM working with my subway. I later switched to to a SATA drive because its much faster, but you have a Denab which is really nice hardware

[ajk]

Hey,

and thanks for the quick replies. But now I'm a bit confused, do I or do I not need a CD0 in DosDrivers?

Here is what happens without it (excuse the moiré), the disc seems to be recognized but the drive just stays active, no icon ever appears on workbench, and I can't cd to or list contents of the volume.

All Poseidon settings should pretty much be default still, haven't tried tinkering with stuff yet. Any ideas what is going wrong here? I can try a different drive or more discs but they should all be in order. IDE DVD drive works fine (with the appropriate CD0 in devs).