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#Amiga & BB share CDROM

    25-Dec-94 12:51:04
Sb: #Amiga & BB share CDROM
Fm: David Kay 72074,122
To: ALL
Finally, I had the time to install a SoundBlaster16 with SCSI-2 into my A2386 equipped A2000 box. I made up a SCSI cable to go from the A2091, to my harddisk, then to my old Toshiba 3041 CDROM, and finally on to the SoundBlaster. I removed the terminating resistors from the drives, leaving the ones on the A2091 and Sound Blaster. The blaster software was installed and one line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT changed from:- DEVICE=C:\SCSI\ASPI2DOS.SYS /D /Z to:- DEVICE=C:\SCSI\ASPI2DOS.SYS /D /Z /H5 The /Hs at the end changes the SounBlaster controller ID from 7 to 5. The Amiga is using ID 7 and I don't think that it can be changed for a CD. Everything now works well. From Windoze I can access the CD (drive D). If the Amiga CD0: is mounted or used after the BridgeBoard is booted it seems that I have to issue a "CHANGEDISK CD0:" command to get it to read properly. This appears to be a simple (and hopefully safe way to acces the CDROM from both sides of a big box Amiga. David Kay Flying in from Montreal.