Re: "CD drive not found" frustration

Subject	Re: "CD drive not found" frustration
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
From	Bryn Evans <d@a.invalid>
Date	2012-09-22 16:50 +0100
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In a mad moment - Jim Nagel  mumbled :

> Neither the RiscPC that I am trying to update nor my Iyonix will
> recognize their CD drives.

> My Iyonix (5.18), as soon as I click on the CD on the iconbar, says:
>      Message from CDFS filer:
>      CD-ROM drive not found
> The drive has its data and power cables connected correctly to sockets
> on the motherboard.  When I put a disc in the drive, its green LED
> flashes briefly as if to acknowledge it.  In "Configure > Discs", one
> CD drive is set.

> The customer's RiscPC (4.02) has two CD drives; "Configure > Discs" is
> set accordingly.  They are connected to a Simtec 16-bit IDE interface
> in podule slot 3.  Their LEDs responded when I put a disc in each
> drive.  Click on either drive on the iconbar, and the hourglass runs
> for a good minute; eventually the same error message comes up.

> What am I overlooking?  Any advice, please?
With regard to the RiscPC - With Simtec IDEFS interface.

The CD drive(s) should be connected directly to the ADFS (Hard Disc)
connector on the Main PCB.   Do not connect to the Simtec board.

The first or only CD drive should be set
to Master and any second drive to Slave, using the small jumpers,
normally found near the cable connectors of the drives.
There is NO CD function via the Simtec IDE Interface which operates as 
the IDEFS system and offers connections to up to Four Hard Discs.

Configure the Computer for n CDROM Drives, 0 IDE Hard Discs, and 
FileSystem to IDEFS.

I have no experience of the Iyonix but if the Hard Disc and the CD 
share the same data cable then I believe that the Hard disc should be 
linked as Master and the CDRom set as Slave. (May be wrong there !)


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"CD drive not found" frustration Jim Nagel <jimnewsm10d@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2012-09-22 16:01 +0100
  Re: "CD drive not found" frustration charles <charles@charleshope.demon.co.uk> - 2012-09-22 16:48 +0100
  Re: "CD drive not found" frustration Bryn Evans <d@a.invalid> - 2012-09-22 16:50 +0100
    Re: "CD drive not found" frustration Jim Nagel <jimnewsm10d@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2012-09-23 19:05 +0100
      Re: "CD drive not found" frustration "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-09-23 19:36 +0100
      Re: "CD drive not found" frustration Andrew Wickham <ajw99uk@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-23 13:32 -0700
  Re: "CD drive not found" frustration Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2012-09-23 14:55 +0200

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