Reading Amiga Active CDs 17 and 18

Some people have been experiencing problems reading one or both of the last two Amiga Active CDs. These two CDs were created as "multi-session" CDs, so that they could include both Amiga and Linux files.

Older CD filesystems are unable to read these discs completely. To check your filesystem, open a shell and type

    version CD0: full

replacing "CD0:" with the name of your CDROM drive. If you get a response of

    cdfs.library 40.11 (09/11/1993)

you are using the old Commodore CD filesystem from the CD32 and OS 3.1. This This is almost certainly the worst CD filesystem ever invented. It's slow, buggy and doesn't support multi-session CDs.

The solution is to install AmiCDFS from a previous AACD, it's in AACD:AACD/Resources/CDROM/AmiCDFS2, or you can download the archive, complete with installer from here.

AmiCDFS2install.lha
AmiCDFS2install.zip