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I think I hate IDEfix97
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I have had to reinstall Classic Workbench on my Amiga 1200.I have the above software so that I can use a Zip Drive and a CDRom Drive.The zip is ticketyboo but I cant read anything on my Asus CD Drive.It was working fine before the reinstallation but now I am stuck.Using IDEfix prefs I can recognise my drive and even eject using the software but thats all.My startup-sequence looks fine but why does'nt it work?.My CD0 TOOL TYPES IS AS FOLLOWS....calm down Dave...get a grip...My CD tooltypes is as follows Activate=1 device=atapi.device unit=2 It's no good, I am going to have a wobbler...AAARGGHHH!!!! and all that and everything.I await the heavenly mana from the web and thank you profusely in advance |
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Is atapi.device present in devs: ?
Is CD0 in Devs:DosDrivers ? Does startup-sequence contain something like Mount Devs:DosDrivers/#? ? Is the CD drive connected as slave to the secondary port of the IDE splitter ? primary master = unit 0 primary slave = unit 1 secondary master = unit 2 secondary slave = unit 3 Why did you change the tooltypes manually ? Didn't you install IDEfix software yourself ? The IDEfix installer does not change tooltypes. It writes the parameters into the CD0 file itself (it's a text file, it can be viewed and edited). What happens if you enter cd cd0: in a shell window ? Did you run CDFSPrefs ? Does CD0 show up in CDFSPrefs ? Does CDFSPrefs complain about wrong settings ? Does it work if you correct the wrong settings ? Does it work if you change the "use disk change interrupt" setting ? Please post the contents of the CD0 file. Does it say Filesystem=L:CacheCDFS or Filesystem=L:CDRomfilesystem ? If it contains the latter, then reinstall IDEfix. Make sure that the proper CD0 file from IDEfix is used and not the bad one from Commodore. |
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Hi Thomas,
Thanks for the reply and I hope this comments on your suggestions as accurately as possible....here goes Is atapi.device present in Devs: yes ad_atapi.device Is CDO in Devs: Dosdrivers yes Does startup sequence contain something like Mount Devsosdrivers/#?? yes yes C:Mount >NIL DEVSDosdrivers/~()(#.info) Device is on secondary master Unit=2 I am afraid you have lost me with the tooltypes question Enter CD CD0 in shell and I get No disk present in device cd0 CDFS Prefs The entire specs are greyed out The Cd0 file is as follows TOOL TYPES ACTIVATE=1 DEVICE=atapi.device Informationen C:Mount Protection bits readable writable executable deleteable I do hopt this makes sense for you to anylise - having to use a Pc instead of my miggy aint fun.all my thanks in advance Dave,rapidly balding but hanging in there....I hope UNIT=2 |
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Did you newly download IDEfix or did you use an existing installation directory ? Seems like some files are missing from the installation directory. Please download http://aminet.net/disk/misc/IDEfix97.lha and transfer it unchanged to the Amiga. Copy it to Ram Disk, then open a Shell window and enter the commands cd ram: lha x idefix97 Close the shell window, close the Ram Disk window if it is still open and open it again. There should now be a new directory named IDE-fix containing several icons, one being InstallSoftware. Use this to install IDEfix again. When asked for your skill, do *not* choose novice. Never select novice when installing something. Always select advanced user or expert. |
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Hi Thomas,
Thanks for your reply - I am really grateful for the help.Unfortunately the damn thing still is'nt up and running.I am therefor going to nuke the disk and start again from scratch.It might sound excessive but I wont be reformating- just deleting the Bloodwych software and then using "the real Amiga installation disk" to extract the system zip which will be the only software still on DH0:.I might not be the sharpest knife in the drawer but I know I'm not blunt either.I will keep you posted as to how I'm doing, and hopefully might give you a laugh or two.Thanks again Thomas Dave - definitely suffering acute hair loss.It's amazing what you can do with a pair of scissors! |
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Hi Dave_wb,
In addition thomas' always excellent & spot-on advice a couple of thoughts. I bought a Liteon slot-loader for my A1200 that I had real trouble getting to work with my IDEFix-Express. (much the same software I believe) So what was wrong? Well, the main one was it wasn't the unit-number I thought it was - duh! My install disc has a util called find-device (or some such) which gave me the info I needed to get it working. The other I'm not so sure about but in the process of fiddling... ...many CD drives are 'hard-wired' to be slave, my Liteon was. So what if you plug such a drive into the secondary port of the controller without a master as I did? Maybe it won't work. I found some software to reset the drive's BIOS as master. (among other things) |
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Hi Charlie,
Thanks for the heads up - I will give it a go.The CDRom was working fine with the setup I had before the nuke but who knows,maybe I was just being lucky and not realising it.I could not keep the Groovy Player out on the workbench and pissed about with the project,tool,trashcan etc to try and keep it out.No dice,followed by no CDRom........ Thanks again for your input, I will keep you posted |
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