#Which CDFS???
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Hello,
>> Can anyone recommend a CD-ROM filesystem?
Yes, of course I recommend my CacheCDFS! 🙂
(Well, as I am deeply involved in this product and therefore it would be
absolutely natural for you that you don't trust my words – a Demo version of
CacheCDFS 2.7 is in CIS AmigaUser. Give it a try and decide for yourself. And –
yes – it can read
Mac CDs)
Oliver
I'll give it a look. Thanks as always, Oliver.
Mr. Zombie
It looks like a pretty nice package, Oliver! A couple comments…
The YACDP program isn't font sensitive. Not the end of the world or anything.
I tried the PlayCD program, and it seemed just fine, although I *definitely*
don't like its font! But YACDP seems to be the only player that can output
over Paula.
Also, none of the docs talk about registration and/or price! A bit of a goof,
I'd say.
And finally, the docs say that CacheCDFS will *try* to read Mac HFS discs. I
haven't had a problem so far, and my AIFF datatype worked very nicely–the
first time I got to use it!–but that cautionary isn't exactly inspiring.
Mr. Zombie
Hi Paul,
>> The YACDP program isn't font sensitive. Not the end of the world or
anything. I tried the PlayCD program, and it seemed just fine, although I
*definitely* don't like its font! <<
Nobody likes my font… sniff… Look in PlayCDs Tooltype. You can choose the
font you like. If you don't specify a font (Put Font and FontSize in brackets)
the screenfont will be used. If you define Font=default, the System font will
be used.
>> But YACDP seems to be the only player that can output over Paula.
Yes. Don't ask me about YACDP, please contact the author.
>> Also, none of the docs talk about registration and/or price! A bit of a
goof, I'd say. <<
No? Hmmm… Thank you for the hint, I'll change this! The price is 89,- DM
(about 50 USD I think). You can order it from Hirsch & Wolf. The Address SHOULD
be in the file Contact.doc. They accept Credit cards and foreign orders. And
yes, they speak English.
>> And finally, the docs say that CacheCDFS will *try* to read Mac HFS discs. I
haven't had a problem so far, and my AIFF datatype worked very nicely–the
first time I got to use it!–but that cautionary isn't exactly inspiring.
<<
What I mean with this uninspiring words: CacheCDFS was neither designed nor
optimized for MAC-HFS CDs. e.g. the caching mechanism is optimized for ISO
(Amiga) and RockRidge discs.
I added MAC-HFS in a last minute afford to compete with AsimCDFS.
At the moment of writing, I only had a couple of MAC discs and very small
possibilities to check, if the data I am reading really IS the data you want to
read.
I converted some Adobe fonts from a MAC disc with success, but I considered
this not to be a "proof" of functionality.
So I decided to say it the way I did. However, CacheCDFS is available now for
about 6 Month and until now nobody has reported problems.
Oliver
Oliver-
Yet another question. <g> I just moved the CDROM over the Emplant's scsi
controller and tried to reinstall CacheCDFS, but it wouldn't detect the CDROM
drive on any of the emp*.devices in the list. Do you know what I'm doing
wrong?
Mr. Zombie
Hi Paul,
>> Yet another question. <g> I just moved the CDROM over the Emplant's scsi
controller and tried to reinstall CacheCDFS, but it wouldn't detect the CDROM
drive on any of the emp*.devices in the list. Do you know what I'm doing
wrong?
<<
This sounds strange… Unfortunately I don't have an Emplant to check this. But
some people reported that it works. FindCD doesn't detect the CD-Rom? Hmm..
Try a "hard-core" method:
Edit the mountlist entry created for your scsi.device.
Exchange DEVICE="scsi.device" with the emplant name (whatever it is).
Another method: Edit the ToolType of the CD0: icon, enter DEVICE=emp…device
I assume the unit is still the same.
Before doing so, remove the "QUIET" from the mountlist entry, so you can see if
the Filesystem yells! (It is the "Q" in the Control="…" line)
Please tell me, if this works. If it does, I have to adapt FindCD for the
Emplant.
If it doesn't, try funny setting like "No ChangeInt", "24BITDMA", "SCSI Direct"
and so on.
Oliver
Uh, just forgot something: Does FindCD work, if you disable the "Show CD-Roms
only" gadget? Probably this will solve the problem!
Oliver
Nope. 🙁
Mr. Zombie
>> Nope. 🙁
Did you try the "hard-core" method?
Did the FileSystem say anything meaningful like:
"Can't open …device"?
If this is a bug on my side, I would be pleased if you can help me fixing it…
Oliver-
Finally tried the hardcore method. Didn't work either. 🙁 I think the bug
might possibly be on the Emplant's side, though, because I ran a utility called
probescsi on empscsi.device and my machine crashed. FindCD reports no CD-ROM
on that device, and if I de-check CD-ROM ONLY, it reports something unknown on
ID 0, which is incorrect, since I have the drive on ID 5.
Mr. Zombie
Hi Paul,
Sorry, but I ran out of ideas. Probably (hopefully) you're right an Emplant is
the one to blame… It really seems to behave quite strange…
Oliver
Btw, Oliver, is there any way to delay the mounting of CD0 if the drive isn't
turned on? I installed the whole shebang on a friend's 4000 with Fastlane, and
if the drive wasn't turned on at boot time, CD0 could never mount if it was in
devs/dosdrivers at boot time. I suggested putting it in storage/dosdrivers,
but for some reason he didn't want to do that. Anyway, even if he turned on
the drive and then tried to remount CD0, it wouldn't work unless he rebooted
with the drive on. I haven't tried that on my machine since I just put it in
storage/dosdrivers and mount it whenever I turn on the drive. Btw, I did find
a couple Mac discs that don't work with your HFS support–they're ones that
came with my drive, too. 🙁
Mr. Zombie
Also, one last thing. (Sorry for the profusion of messages.) When I switch my
CD-ROM drive off from scsi.device to either the emplant's scsi controller or
possibly my WarpEngine's, will I need to reinstall from scratch?
Mr. Zombie
Hello Paul,
>> Also, one last thing. (Sorry for the profusion of messages.) When I switch
my CD-ROM drive off from scsi.device to either the emplant's scsi controller or
possibly my WarpEngine's, will I need to reinstall from scratch?
<<
You can (it doesn't hurt). I suggest the following: Install with scsi.device.
Start CDFSprefs. Click "Quiet". Click "Save". Install again with CD-Rom at
Emplant.
Choose a different name (e.g. CD1 instead of CD0). Start CDFSprefs. Click
"Quiet". Click "Save". Now you can put your CD-Rom wherever you want.
On scsi.device you can access it with "CD0", on Emplant with "CD1". Note that
if the CDROM is not connected, CachCDFS will "unmount" itself automatically, so
there will be no waste of memory.
Oliver