[Virtualacorn-list] CD drives in VRPC-AdjustSA

[Brian Carroll]

In article <c31.4c7f113b.36a84ddf at aol.com>, <ATimbrell at aol.com>
wrote:
> In a message dated 20/01/2009 18:23:14 GMT Standard Time,
> chris at noonehere.co.uk writes:

> >> I have a CD/RW and a CDVD/RW on the PC, drives D: and E:
> >> and  I have enabled 2 CD drives in RISC OS > Config >
> >> Discs.   I am also using CDROMFS, so CDFiler is killed.  I
> >> have the  expected 2 drive icons on the RISC OS iconbar but
> >> only the first is  'live'. This one works OK, as described
> >> in the VRPC manual.  I  have fiddled in the VRPC Model.cfg
> >> file to no avail.  Is there  a way of getting access to
> >> both drives from VRPC ?

> >I  could also do with an answer to that problem as well.
>  
> VirtualRPC only supports one CD drive via CDFS. ...

That's what I suspected and it's entirely reasonable for most
uses.  After further fiddling, with CD drives :0 and :1 set up
in RISC OS, I find that these 'map' to Windows drives D: and E:
, so I can access my CDVD/RW drive by editing the CD section in:

C:\ProgramFiles\VirtualAcorn\VirtualRPC-AdjustSA\Models\StrongARM
RISC OS Adjust (Jit)\Model.cfg

[CDDrive]
CDROM = 0               <-  change to CDROM = 1
Multithread = 1
ReadSectorHack =  1
UseASPI = 0
UseSPTI = 1

The reason I want to do this is possibly to try CDVDBurn to burn
backup CDs for VirtualAcorn.  Of course, an atlernative way
found this is to use the Disc Manager in Windows to reverse the
drive allocation letters.

> ... You can of course set up a HostFS mount that points to a
> second drive (or third, fourth etc). But you will only be able
> to read Acorn format CDs on the CDFS drive.

Interesting, but I don't think I will use that (yet).

Thanks for the information.  BTW, I asked the questions here
because I was sure I had seen some mention of something near
them in this list (and I do not like the forum).

Brian

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Brian Carroll, Ripon, N Yorks, UK  briancarroll at f2s dot com
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