#CD-ROM problem
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Hi;
I have: A2000, GVP G 040 @33, 16meg on board, 2 meg chip ram DKB, 2 int.
HD's,(Maxtor 213andQuantum 500, daisy chained to internal GVPScsi port).
WB 3.1. Also have Picasso II,Emplant, OpalVision and VLab boards;
Bernoulli 150 external, connected to external GVPScsi port and Sony 300
CD-ROM.
My present problem is getting my CD-ROM to run properly from the Amiga
side. It works perfectly with Emplant Mac emulation. It's connected to the
Emplant SCSI port. I have AsimCDFS installed. On installation, the
asimcdfs.device is placed in devs/dosdrivers. On reboot, or cold boot, the
system hangs up at devs/dosdrivers command in startup-sequence (I used
"set echo on" to ascertain this). If I move AsimCDFS.device to devs, the
system boots ok but I can't access the CD-ROM even though CD0: has been
mounted. At this point, if I move AsimCDFS.device back to devs/dosdrivers,
I can get Asim to recognize the CD-ROM and then I can access my CD-ROMs.
However its function is a little bit irregular and occasionally crashes.
I recently installed WB 3.1 and was hoping this would help the situation.
I had the identical problem with WB 2.1. I first deleted AsimCDFS, after
installing 3.1 to see if the CD-ROM would work but it didn't.
I have the CD-ROM named emplantscsi.device.
Any help would be appreciated.
For one thing, AsimCDFS.device is not used in your dosdriver entry. I
guess the best way would be to show you the dosdriver I have for using a
Emplant connected CDROM drive. Here goes:
/************************************************************/
/* AsimCDFS MountList entry — )1993 Asimware Innovations */
/* Modified for Emplant use */
/************************************************************/
Device = empscsi.device
Unit = 5
Buffers = 0
BufMemType = 5
Mask = 0xffffffe
Flags = 0
FileSystem = l:AsimCDFS
DosType = 0x662dabac
GlobVec = -1
Reserved = 0
LowCyl = 0
HighCyl = 999
Mount = 1
Surfaces = 1
BlocksPerTrack = 32
Priority = 10
StackSize = 5000
Your Dosdriver should be very similar to this except that a few of the
parameters will probably be different depending on the drive you use. And
of course, the unit number may be different as well.
// John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840)
\X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
John;
My cd0:, which is in my devs/dosdrivers directory, has identical
parameters to yours (except for unit number-mine is 4). When you say
"AsimCDFS.device is not used in your dosdriver entry", do you mean it
should not be in that directory? The Asim installer places it there.
I appreciate your help- this is getting very frustrating.
Hank