Awesome Video, The Amiga 4000 is my dream amiga system. I have an Amiga 1200 which is inside an EZ Z4 Case with a Mediator LT4.

I have a CD drive for my A1200 using the Squirrel SCSI interface. I used it for Aminet CDs, and games like Myst, Genetic Species, and other games mid 90s onwards. The last few seconds of your video were funny, with the pop-up appearing 🙂

This is a great workaround if you don't have a dedicated SCSI board. Quite some time ago, I bought the GVP HC+8 SCSI board for my A4000D which has a HDD and a CD-ROM. I literally plugged it in, installed the GVP disk, and it worked like a treat. I think I got a bit spoilt with that!

Doug. A-TAP-E. Also LIBS is LIBS. Not Libes. :) (Knows Doug will punch me repeatedly) Great video and full of great info. I didn’t even know this was a thing. Thank you!!

I had to look this up as I couldn't believe it -- but the power "switch" is just an actuator/rod for the real switch on the power supply! I don't think I've ever seen something like that in a computer before, but I suppose that the engineering cost was cheaper than wiring a proper switch to the power supply.

I remember using MakeCD on my old A4000 with OS 3.9 for burning CD's. As far as i recall, it was quite easy :)

My CD-ROM solution for my Amiga 500 back in the day was a ParNET cable connected to a CDTV. That worked great for reading the Almathera and Aminet sets as if the CD's were mounted directly on the 500, especially for grabbing fonts, icons and clip art collections.

Thanks Doug love your work. Cheers

Nice vid Doug 👍🏻 But you should also mention the filesystem you are using for the CD0 mount? The mount file will be pointing at L: 😉 The IDEFIX’97 program will also need a Serial number etc or you will get a nag screen. 🙏🏻

Honestly CD-ROm's on Amiga can be a PITA and this was not always the case because back in the day the first CD-ROM I ever installed was in my A2000 HD with an Expansion Systems HD Controller but they had the software ready to go. Move forward to recent years, The best solution I found was an interface that came with Alegro CDFS and EIDE'99. It's been a while and I am an old fart so I tend to forget things but I know where that install disk is and I have an extra board somewhere too. I have Amiga Kit boards and they work for one drive but I never could get multiple drives to work but that's probably due to something I have done wrong because Amiga Kit stuff tends to work well so I am not blaming anything on them. Now what I used CD's for is to move files from the PC to the Amiga. Hell yea burn a disk and everything is there. However I have been networking all my Amiga's so I can access files from one of my servers which is one thing I wanted to do back when I started backing up my collection. I do have a couple Amgia Specific CD's, OS3.2, RoadShow and yea Fred Fish too. Hey if you don't have anything Fred Fish you may not be a legit Amiga Old School User but I have two. Not sure where I got the first one but the second one came from a purchase of a 2091 and optical drive on eBay a few years back when I was buying Anything Amiga yea lets not go there but I think Chris Edwards has me beat in that department and then maybe no, no, no I think he has me beat in that department. All I know is when something Amiga does not go well it requires a lot of reading. Bring up the Information on an ICON will save your behind when it comes to specific device requirements. Reading is fundimental and Google can be your friend. I love my Amigas and no matter how they may frustrate me at time I just look at it as something to do and keeping me out of trouble. PC's are a dime a dozen if they die you just replace them but Amiga's no no no you fix them and bring then back to life although you will have a good cry along the way but sometimes we need to shed a tear or two. Ok ok Ramble over with.....

Super video, this I will try, i have problems getting the splitter to work on my Amiga 4000T. For the missing front plade on your A4000, pehaps you would be intrested in making a cf and gotex front. I have designed a combined Gotek CF-ide fron pannel thats fits in a 3,5 inch bay. The 3d model and assembly description is avalibal at "printables"

Many thanx! Very helpful. AtapiMagic didnt work for me on 3.2 this trick did it

I did this too a few months ago on my A4000 so I didn't need to rely on my SCSI card, as my SCSI CD-ROM was dying and those drives are not all that easy to find nowadays. Whereas IDE CD/DVD ROM drives can be had at my local thrift store for less than 10 dollars 😄Works like a charm. I also did that same ATAPI file copy from IDEFIX97 (did you stumble about through the files to work that out like I did? 😁You were probably wiser and knew it already, but I did not!)

Thank you Doug I have persisted for weeks trying to get my CD Rom visible on the my A4000 workbench screen. Cheers

BTW, I have wondered what happened when Commodore painted the A4000 top case that gray-ish color. My 4000 top cover happens to match the front bezel so it seems they had two colors. Maybe they fixed the mismatch at soem point in production.

That smaller hole looks like it could fit Gotek...

I bought ASIM CDFS back in 1996 with my CD drive. Still use it today for reading and burning. I have an external case with both CD ROM (CD0) and CD Burner (CD1). There is some weirdness I need tosort out after having my stuff in storage for 20 years, like why CD0/1 want to still mount when I pull them out of DEVs (my workaround for now was to rename the device icons to "CD0_DONOTUSE"

Will it boot from the CD? as in the oS 3.2 install disk? Right now I used the naive Blue Ray drive onmy PC in winuae I'll be doing a video on installing 3.2 directly from the optical drive.

This is great tutorial, thank you! however I've beaten my head over this for a while, this and all other fixes have failed for me. I tried multiple CD drives as well as replacing cables. I tried the AtapiMagic and that too failed. You ever see a grown man cry over a cd rom?