A600, IDE CDrom, names being truncated?

[gertsy]

You could configure your burning program to use ISO9660 level 2. This would allow 32 upper case characters with one dot. If it also allows Rockridge extensions (Unix files), it should be shown correctly on the Amiga (with mixed case and multiple dots).

Or you could install MakeCD inside WinUAE and use it to burn a real Amiga CD (ISO9660 level 2 with Amiga extensions).

I use Nero 11 and ISO9660 2. But long file names still get truncated. Archives being the only answer to maintain the internal file names.

[AmmoJammo]

This morning I tried AsimCDFS, tried it with the atapi.device that came with idefix, as well as the asim_atapi.device.

The drive mounts fine, but when I insert a cd, it kills workbench!

Might just burn cds differently, but I'd really like to be able to just put any cd in, and have it work.

[amiga1260]

Have you set the maxtransfer to 001fe00 in HDToolbox? If the value is higher, then the Amiga will crash.

[PanterHZ]

But people have said that IDEfix doesn't support Joliet, so why does it appear to on my A500?

what is CacheCDFS? is this something that's included with idefix? and how does one go about using it?

The IDEfix executable is used to patch the scsi.device driver for adding support for large harddisks (>4GB) and for using the secondary IDE port on 4-way IDE adapters. It has nothing to do with Joliet or any other file systems.

But the IDEfix package does however include the CacheCDFS file system (with Joliet support) which can be used for accessing CD-ROMs on the Amiga, and it is also included with AmigaOS 3.9.

[PanterHZ]

Just in case you can't get AsimCDFS to work properly, you can try the following:

1. Download and extract the IDEfix archive: http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/IDEfix97

2. Copy the IDE-fix/l/CacheCDFS file to the L drawer on your boot partition.

3. Try using the CD0 mount file I have included here, just remember to change the unit number to the one used by your CD-ROM drive.

[dannyp1]

I use the Star Burn program on my PC to make my CD's to prevent the short file names when they are used on my Amiga's.  You can find it for free online.

[AmmoJammo]

Just in case you can't get AsimCDFS to work properly, you can try the following:

1. Download and extract the IDEfix archive: http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/IDEfix97

2. Copy the IDE-fix/l/CacheCDFS file to the L drawer on your boot partition.

3. Try using the CD0 mount file I have included here, just remember to change the unit number to the one used by your CD-ROM drive.

got an error message that says "cannot open atapi.device unit 0"

this is odd, as atapi.device, unit 0, is what I'm using with AmiCDFS.

[Thomas]

got an error message that says "cannot open atapi.device unit 0"

this is odd, as atapi.device, unit 0, is what I'm using with AmiCDFS.

Are you sure? Unit 0 is the primary master which usually is the harddrive. The CD drive should be slave and thus Unit 1.

Unit 0 -> primary master
Unit 1 -> primary slave
Unit 2 -> secondary master (only available if you have a 4way-adapter)
Unit 3 -> secondary slave  (only available if you have a 4way-adapter)

[AmmoJammo]

Its a laptop DVD drive, there does not appear to be an option for master/slave

The CF is therefore set to slave, and appears to happily work like this.

[mfilos]

If there is not a jumper then probably it's set as CS (cable select) or Slave by default.
If find it rather hard for a laptop CD/DVD to operate by default as Master.

[AmmoJammo]

If I set the CF to master, workbench still boots, but comes up with an error, can't remember what it said, but it doesn't do it with the CF set to slave.