From: worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk (Ben Hutchings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: A4000 CDROM Date: 13 Nov 1997 00:54:30 GMT Organization: Not organised Message-ID: <64dj46$6q8$1@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <879308320.13598@dejanews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sable.ox.ac.uk Lines: 83 Path: 195.95.96.10!news.unisource.be!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!amsterdam.news.unisource.nl!gate.news.unisource.nl!bullseye.news.demon.net!demon!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!baron.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!server3.netnews.ja.net!news.ox.ac.uk!sable.ox.ac.uk!worc0223 In article <879308320.13598@dejanews.com>, wrote: > I'm trying to put an IDE cd-rom drive into an A4000, but i'm not having >much luck. I have my IDE HD set up as Master and the IDE Cd-rom drive >set up as slave. When I get into workbench and put in a CD, the CD will >not show up on the WB screen(I have moved the CD-rom Driver into the >Expansion drawer and rebooted). Obviously I must be missing something! Yes, you are. The "CD-ROM driver" in the "Storage/DOSDrivers" drawer is not actually a driver - that drawer name is rather misleading. You need to get hold of a replacement driver for the IDE bus that can handle CD-ROM drives as well as hard drives. There are two commercial products available which provide this - IDEfix97 and the "Plug'n'Play ATAPI CD-ROM" driver. IDEfix97 also supports some other newer IDE features needed to make use of an IDE Zip drive. You could also get the beta v43 IDE driver from Amiga International's FTP site - which is what I did. This requires OS 3.1 and needs a little fiddling with your startup-sequence, so it's not for the faint-hearted; however, since you have already opened up and fiddled around with the internals of your A4000 I think you are not one of them. Aaargh! I just checked and ftp.amiga.de seems to be screwed up. It looks like AI's ISP (Welfen-Netz) has been moving things around and currently www.amiga.de = amiga.amiga.de is providing FTP service for some PC supplier while ftp.amiga.de has no public FTP service at all! I did a little investigation: These are the two hosts in the amiga.de domain: amiga.amiga.de (alias www.amiga.de) has address 194.112.110.240. The machine that actually corresponds to this address is normally called rs-main.welfen-netz.com and has address 194.112.110.1. It is running Windows NT and NT's standard FTP service. The route from here (ox.ac.uk) to amiga.amiga.de goes through AT&T lines and then through Cybernet AG's lines. amiga2.amiga.de (alias ftp.amiga.de) has address 194.231.42.152. The machine that actually corresponds to this address is normally called www4.mediaserve.de and has address 194.231.42.253. It is running UNIX and wu-ftpd. The route from here to amiga2.amiga.de goes through AT&T lines and then through DPN's lines. It seems to me that its name record is entirely incorrect. The name servers for amiga.de are rs-main.welfen-netz.com (the ISP's main (or only?) machine, it seems) and ns.cybernet-ag.net (the upstream provider's name server). Since I'm currently in the situation of dealing with one ISP maintaining name records and another looking after the actual addresses myself, I can see how these sorts of things can happen. But it doesn't look good at all. Now, watch me try out their mail server: Trying 194.112.110.6... Connected to isdn.welfen-netz.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 MERCUR SMTP-Server (v2.10) for Windows NT ready at Thu, 13 Nov 97 01:33:32 +0100 vrfy ptysch@amiga.de 250 User not local; will forward to vrfy HFritsches@amiga.de 250 User not local; will forward to vrfy nicogo@amiga.de 250 User not local; will forward to vrfy kraemer@amiga.de 250 vrfy steep@amiga.de 250 vrfy webmaster@amiga.de 250 vrfy postmaster@amiga.de 550 Recipient not here quit 221 163.1.2.4 closing connection The failure to accept mail to postmaster@amiga.de is a serious breach of Internet standards! The other information might be of use... I would assume the AOL accounts exist to allow easy access from around the world, which tells us which of the staff are chained to their desks... ;-) I guess it's time to mail the webmaster then... -- Ben Hutchings, M&CS student | ICOAmiga http://www.netreach.net/~fleecy/icoa/ email/finger m95bwh@ecs.ox.ac.uk | homepage http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0223/ "This .sig sucks!" "Shut up Beavis! It gets cool in a minute."