| From: | Dan G. Lunde |
| Date: | 6 Mar 2001 at 20:25:09 |
| Subject: | Re: CacheCDFS vs. IDEFIX97 |
On Tuesday 06 March 2001 19:06, you wrote:
| Hello Dan
|
| On 06-Mar-01, you wrote:
| > I recently installed IDEFIX97 to get my new IDE CD-Rom working. At the
| > time I had no working CD-Roms and downloading IDEFIX from Aminet..
| > It got my drive up and working, and I installed CacheCDFS from OS3.9.
| >
| > I have OS3.9 and therefore a licensed CacheCDFS. However each..
| > the atapi.device I get the *very* annoying "Demo version only, please buy
| > blah, blah, blah" from IDEFIX97.
| >
| > I've tried installing CacheCDFS using the installer, and manually..
| > luck. I've also tried renaming the C:IDEFIX to C:IDEFIX_ to prohibit it
| > from loading. Both without any luck.
| >
| > Any help is appreciated
|
| Don't use atapi.device - you don't have a licensed IDEfix (you don't
| actually have a "licensed" CacheCDFS either to be honest) and that's what's
| causing the nag requesters to appear.
I'll stick to scsi.device then. This has always been a source of
misunderstanding on the Amiga.
| Given that IDEfix is only £15, I'd recommend buying it if you want to use
| it. Just because you have a tiny component bundled with the OS doesn't
| mean you have the right to use the full commercial product it's from.
|
I buy lots of Amiga software. Although IDEFix seems like a nice package, I
will not pay £15 for it. It's far too unstable. Let's say I mount a drive on
boot, and that drive don't exist it corrupts the CVision gfx-output.
If a light version of IDEFix is included in OS3.9 i'll stick with that.
IDEFix does not seem to have been upgraded in a long time, and my £15 are
better spent on developers actively supporting Amiga.
However, using IDE-devices is just a temporary solution to install Debian
from the AA18CD. (Which by the way still didn't work...*sigh*). It would be
much simpler if APUS supported the onboard SCSI controller on CSPPC.
The solution was to download the three ISOs and install Debian via NFS from a
PC nearby ;) Works great.
Btw; thanks for the help.
Dan
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