simple: amiga cd-drives different from pc ones

[Piru]

@SamuraiCrow

If he tries to hook up a hard drive AND CDROM it will likely overload the signal pins and fry the motherboard.

Well, I had 3 HDDs and a CD-RW drive hooked to std A1200 IDE. No buffering - no problems whatsoever. (Oh, naturally everything was powered by proper PC PSU)

Yes, but AmigaOS for less than version 4.0 prerelease 4 will not read files larger than 2 GB

DVDs don't typically hold files larger than 1GB (mainly because the mainstream OS has issues with larger files). Movie DVDs use several 1GB files, you can read them on classic amiga just fine. In fact, movie player apps access the DVD directly, and thus are not bound by any limitations of a filesystem. Largefile support is not required for DVDs, it's mostly useful for HDDs.

DVD movie playback on classic Amiga is completely another matter...

[Lando]

SamuraiCrow wrote:

If he tries to hook up a hard drive AND CDROM it will likely overload the signal pins and fry the motherboard.

Maybe - anything is possible.  But I had CD-ROM and hard drive hooked up to the internal A1200 IDE with nothing but a 2.5" -> 2 x 3.5" IDE cable on two different machines with no problems for over 2 years.  I suppose some people have more luck than others.

Several people in this thread over at EAB seem to have no problems with this setup too.

[3246251196]

where can i find 2.5 - > 3.5 cables guys?

[adolescent]

@324...

I got my cables from www.cablesonline.com.  Although, they are in the states so it might be better to look locally first.

[3246251196]

might try and get it simply on ebay

i could get away with getting QUITE SIMPLY the 2.5" - 3.5" IDE cable right?

[3246251196]

looking on eBay for 2.5 - 3.5 IDE cable. you guys sure it dont involve a USB slot. i mean, it is exactly the same as your normal IDE connector for PC right except 2.5 / 3.5 ??

[Flashlab]

No the best ones also have SATA, SCSI, AGP and PCI slots. And of course the USB plugs you mentioned!

 ;-)

Just kidding!

Just a regular 2,5 to 3,5 cable is what you need. It has been said above before; if you want to connect more than one device a buffered interface is better...

[3246251196]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-5-Laptop-to-3-5-IDE-Hard-Drive-Adaptor-Cable_W0QQitemZ9705639972QQcategoryZ41994QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

like the above which says HDD cable. of course, that should do the trick too

[SamuraiCrow]

That will work as long as you don't also have a hard drive hooked up.  If you want both a hard drive and CD-ROM you'll need some sort of buffered splitter cable like you could get at AmigaKit.

[3246251196]

excellent samuri. thats cleared all that up

still WAITING for eCheque to clear for A1200  :madashell:

looking forward to it though!