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Free CD-ROM Driver!

    25-Oct-93 19:27:24
Fm: John Gager 71336,624
"Is your software SCSI controller dependent and is there a chance, that it will work with my ancient C Ltd. SCSI controller (not the KRONOS) on my A1000 ?" Joergen: First to avoid any confusion, and to give credit where credit is due, it's NOT my software. The AmiCDROM software is written by Frank Munkert in Germany. I'm just uploaded the software that he has posted on Internet. Since I have Internet access through BIX, it's not much of a problem to upload a few programs here once in awhile <g>. So I just keep it updated here on CompuServe when he comes out with new releases. . Now that is taken care of, to answer your other questions. No, the software is not SCSI controller dependent. It uses the device software (scsi.device, gvpscsi.device, etc.) that comes with most controllers now. However your controller should be able to support SCSI-DIRECT commands and the C-LTD controller might fail in that regard. There is a PD program put out by Xetec called SCSI_LISTER that will check to see if your controller can handle scsi direct (SCSILI.ZOO in Lib 9 here on AmigaUser). If it passes the test, then you shouldn't have too much of a problem. Even if it doesn't pass, you might still try it. AmiCDROM has a provision to use trackdisk.device calls instead of scsi direct in case your controller doesn't support it. // John – (Flying via AutoPilot) \X/