Another post today, this time a very very short one.
Firstly congratulations to my friend Darryl and his partner Lana on having their baby at 3am ish this morning :-)
Ok, So I got restless today after walking the dogs with my partner, so when I got home after a quick cuppa I set about trying to get the SCSI CD-ROM drive installed.
As I mentioned previously I couldn't get it to line up with the front of the case and thought I'd need to make a cradle for it.
How wrong I was! Upon further inspection there were screw holes further down that I hadn't contemplated before, as they looked far too low down to be of any use.
Looking again today I gave them a go, and low and behold the drive lines up with the slot now. So it just goes to show that old addige is true about removing yourself from the problem long enough that the solution becomes apparent. lol, that and sleep!
I thought I was going to have a game getting the drive working from a configuration point of view, but to my surprise, after I had fitted it and then powered up, I noticed it did some checking and initialisation in the ROM manager verbose output, listed a HP CD-ROM, span the drive up a couple of times and proceeded to boot.
I then tested the drive with an Amiga cd I had laying around and it appeared almost instantly in the file viewer window. Colour me impressed.
There's not much to show, but here is a picture of that cd in the drive after I had ejected it with the file viewer eject disc button.
Cube sticks tongue out
That's about it for now.
I am still struggling with the networking on the cube, I have found a few seemingly useful apps on the machine, simple network starter and hostmanager, but I can't seem to figure out how to use them yet.
I'm going to do a bit more Googling soon, but for today, I have had enough for now.
Hopefully next time I'll be able to demonstrate the cube connected to my network, and potentially being used for mail or browsing.
See you all again soon.
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