| From: | Sam Thomas |
| Date: | 13 Jul 2001 at 19:26:00 |
| Subject: | Re: CD Drive problems/LS 120 / Icon question |
Hello psinix@yahoo.com
On 13-Jul-01, you wrote:
> On my Amiga 1200 with a Elbox 4xEIDE drive connector I continuously
> lose support for my CD ROM. For example, last night I had a working
> cd rom. Next I installed Dir Opus 5.82 Patch and after that my CD rom
> wouldn't work.
Bizzare! :-/
> I know that if I use the Elbox cd rom driver installation, everything
> will work again. But I don't want to use the Elbox stuff. It requires
> extra software which I don't like 4xeide.driver. Besides that, I want
> to use CacheCDFS that came with OS3.9 because that doesn't nag about
> getting a powerflyer.
Erk, thats not good if it nags you to get a Flyer! (even though I reckon
they are pretty much indespensible :-) ) :-/
> Which files need to be placed where, with what content to make
> CacheCDFS work. My CD is numbered 2 so the device number I use in
> the mountlist is CD2.
You should have CacheCDFS in your sys:l/ directory - mine is version 113.20
(dated 30/10/99 - is there a newer one?)
In your devs:dosdrivers/ you should have your CD2 mountfile set up summat
like this:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/***************************************************************/
/* CacheCDFS mountlist entry � 1993 Elaborate Bytes, O. Kastl */
/***************************************************************/
FileSystem = L:CacheCDFS /* The name of the game */
Device = "scsi.device" /* Name of exec device driver */
Unit = 2 /* exec device unit */
Flags = 0 /* OpenDevice flags */
BlocksPerTrack = 351000 /* Unused */
BlockSize = 2048 /* True, but unused */
Mask = 0x7ffffffe /* Memory mask for direct read */
MaxTransfer = 0x1000000 /* Maximum amount of bytes for direct read */
Reserved = 0 /* Unused */
Interleave = 0 /* Unused */
LowCyl = 0 /* Unused */
HighCyl = 0 /* Unused */
Surfaces = 1 /* Unused */
Buffers = 50 /* Number of cache lines */
BufMemType = 513 /* MEMF_PUBLIC|MEMF_24BITDMA */
BootPri = 2 /* Boot priority for MountCD */
GlobVec = -1 /* Do not change! */
Mount = 1 /* Mount it immediately */
Priority = 10 /* Priority of FileSystem task */
DosType = 0x43443031 /* Currently unused */
StackSize = 3000 /* Minimum stack required is 3000! */
Control = "MD=1 LC=1 DC=8 S NC L LV AL LFC=1 HR=.rsrc"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(Snipped extra settings info)
set the Filesystem one to the same as above,
next, you will need to set the controlling device for the drive. In my case
it is scsi.device because I use a flyer. IDEFix uses atapi.device iirc,
yours may use something different.
Then there is the unit setting - if yours is shown to be unit 2 (master on
the secondary channel usually) enter the value 2 there (as it is)
(Make a backup copy of your mount file as it is before you change it and
move it to DEVS: or somewhere where it wont be run on startup!)
> A second question would be: I have a LS-120 floppy in my tower and I
> want to be able to use it with FFS. Is this possible technically by
> replacing the Crossdosfilesystementry if the mount option by the FFS
> driver in the L: directory?
Umm.. not done this myself (mainly cos a, I dont have a LS120, and b, I have
removed my Zip drive (which works in a similier way) - iirc, when you have
a disk in the drive and run HDToolbox, it should find the drive and allow
you to create a partition on the disk - you should be able to format this
as a FFS partition. Like I say though, I have never done this so I may be
totally wrong. (I'm sure someone will correct me though)
Dont know about your last question though, sorry.
Hope the other stuff helps though,
Cheeeerio
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