Re: Help:SCSI CDROM on Cumana SCSI II card, to get working

In article <defv4m$92d$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rene
<URL:mailto:noemail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andrew Wickham schreef:
> > Rene wrote:
> >
> >>Hello people,
> >>
> >>i have one of the first RiscPCs and RiscOS 3.5, i bought with it an Sony
> >>SCSI CDROM and a Cumana SCSI II controller, it always worked fine, but
> >>now i had to reinstall my !Boot dir and now it doesn't work anymore,
> >>does anyone know what i have to change to make the CDROM work again?
> >>Also is it possible the run ATAPI IDE CDROMS on RiscOS 3.5? *Devices
> >>shows the SCSI CDROM drive fine. I updated te Cumana SCSI card firmware
> >>too, and i have a module called sony which before i had to put somewhere
> >>in the !Boot directory
> >
> >
> > Try !Boot.Choices.Boot.Predesk, though I can't remember if modules here
> > are automatically loaded (if not, add an Obey file which RMLoads your
> > module). You'll also need to change the "configure" settings for 1
> > CDROM. *status will show you which (obvious) entries need changing.
> >
> > What does *cdfs:cddevices show? Try before and after loading the
> > "sony" module.
> >
> > To use an ATAPI CDROM, you'll need the CDFSDriver, CDFSResources,
> > CDFSFiler and CDFSSoftATAPI modeles from RISC OS 3.6 or 3.7 - see other
> > postings on this group for offers of secondhand ROMs.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Andrew
> >
> Still no luck, with Devices it show the cdrom with the number of byte on
> the cdrom loaded but when i click on the CDROM icon on the desktop it is
> thinking a long time and the shows "Number not recognised" anyone else
> that has an idea? Rene
>
In the days of RO3.6 & .7 I used to have this added to B.C.B.Predesk
just below the ResApss section:
| Softload CDFS

RMKill cdfssoftata.
RMKill cdfssofthit.
RMKill cdfssoftchi.
RMKill cdfssoftphi.
RMKill cdfssoftson.
RMKill cdfssofttos.

RMLoad ADFS::4.$.!Boot.Resources.!System.Modules.CDX

| Einde Softload CDFS

It kills every instance of whatever CDFS and loads the special SCSI2 CDFS.
You may have to substitute your Sony module in this line although the CDX
should cater for all SCSI CDROMdrives be it SCSI 1 or 2.
Considering your remark about waiting a long time I'd say you have one of
the other CDFS modules still active.
*CDFS:CDDevices (as Andrew suggested, not *Devices which only shows what's
connected to the SCSI card)) may show this delay too when it is trying
to locate a non-existing drive.
But then again I'm not even sure RO3.5 contains CD-modules...


Gr. HH
--
jheinsbroek@xxxxxx Sent from a Risc PC near me. (RISC OS 4.02)

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