[Virtualacorn-list] CD drives in VRPC-AdjustSA

[Chris Hughes]

In message <502137ddb2briancarroll at f2s.com>
          Brian Carroll <briancarroll at f2s.com> wrote:

> 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.

Why not create an ISO file using CDVDBurn and then actually burn it 
with the something like Nero. Its more likely to work, and you could 
do it while VRPC was in a window (or minimised) - remember that the 
RISC OS Harddisc 4 (HOSTFS) drive are just normal Windows folders and 
I have shortcuts on the windows backdrop to my RISCOS "hard drives".

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Chris Hughes