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[dvvrue95]

Hi ,
I have a problem with a A4000 desktop running OS3.5. It comprised 2 ide hd drives connected to motherboard and a cdrom drive and removable compact flash drive connected via cd tandem card. I had my (original) maxtor drive crash and had to remove it a rebuild sw on to the other (fujitsu) drive. I've manged to get everything else working apart from the cd rom drive. It is wired in to the tandem ide I/F and powered up (no change from before my hd problems).
When I run the tandem install program and use "find cd" if I "scan" the s/w it does not find the drive but if I manually select tandemat.device it finds and correctly identifies the drive. I then select "use", but when I run the install it stops and says it cannot find the cd device and I must use the "find cd" first and just keeps going around this loop.

Any ideas appreciated

[danbeaver]

I can't help with your tandem install issue, but the CD ROM problem may be fixed by IDEFix; it is very good at handling these issues. Although you can get it off Aminet, you can get a registered copy from the Amiga Forever CD. Do a full install as it has several useful feature, runs under OS 3.1 to 4.1, and after working its magic sits quietly aside (no ugly prompts -- registered that is). I believe that anyone using IDE on an Amiga should install it; there is a bunch of good stuff on the AF CD

[dvvrue95]

Hi danbeaver,
thanx for your response. I managed to get the drive working after a long night and tracked the problem down to the name change I had done for my compact flash. Getting to old for this game I had named the two partitions as CD0 AND CD1.

[danbeaver]

Yeah, Kipling's first job was as a journalist; that quote shows up in the movie, "Teacher's Pet" with Doris Day and Clark Gable