I'm looking for a CD Rom Drive for my A1200 (not internal) and not one that uses the PCMCIA, even if you just have the casing as I have some older CD Rom/writers.
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I'm looking for a CD Rom Drive for my A1200 (not internal) and not one that uses the PCMCIA, even if you just have the casing as I have some older CD Rom/writers.
Just to add can anyone recommend a external case for a CDROM drive.
How are you planning to connect it if you aren't using pcmcia... ide or scsi?
I like the one I have created but it wasn't cheap. See my amibay blog.
It may have to be connected to the PCMCIA I just wanted to avoid that, the other way I was thinking of was to get a 3way cable attach that to the case and then have to IDE on male connection to plug to the cable, but if not I will have to go the PCMCIA way.Quote:
Originally Posted by -Acid-
If you go the IDE route then you may find you need an IDE adapter like Idefix99, 4Xeide99 or fastATA. I use a three way 44 pin cable for an internal CDrom and I couldn't get it to wont work without the 4Xeide'99 adapter.
Each IDE bus can have a maximum of two devices. As Arnie says if you want more than two you need some kind of splitter. If you have a SATA CD/DVD-ROM drive you could use one of those IDE to SATA adaptors as an alternative to PCMCIA.
I remember years ago when the 1200 first came out I had a 1x2 1/2 inch with 2x 3 1/2inch that I still have, if you remember when we all use to put 3 1/2inch hard drives in our 1200 I then used the power from the floppy to power the CD-ROM it was crude but worked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arnie
But with the CF cards now and the slim line CD ROM`s I could just use that but don't want to have a IDE cable sticking out of the 1200 so I may have to look at a PCMCIA or hacking up a few IDE cables to make it so it can be plugged and un plugged.
I may just end up going for this http://www.vesalia.de/e_amigaslimcddrive.htm and finding a way to hide the cable...
If you are planning on running an ide cable out the side of your case then I have an external enclosure which has it's own power supply with a 52 speed cd drive. It has space for 2 5.25" drives or you could use a bay converter and put a hard drive in it too. You would need and ide cable and possibly an ide splitter too. Be asking £15 plus postage if interested.
Hi -Acid- I did see the case in the "for sale" section, but I have limited space, I did like what CrazyC had done and something I am looking at but I will see if anything turns up here.Quote:
Originally Posted by -Acid-
Again thank you.