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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Argus on January 11, 2005, 11:31:19 AM

Title: A1200/600 pcmcia memory cards
Post by: Argus on January 11, 2005, 11:31:19 AM

Does anyone know of a list of compatible pcmcia memory cards for the 1200/600?  Thanks.

Title: Re: A1200/600 pcmcia memory cards
Post by: Hyperspeed on January 11, 2005, 12:50:39 PM

Hello Argus,
   You have to be careful as I once bought a PCMCIA Mode 2 card and it
didn't fit.

There is PCMCIA 1 (A600/A1200), PCMCIA 2 and PCMCIA 3.

The Mitsubishi 'Melcard' seems to work. It is a 2Mb SRAM card (memory
or disk use) and has a battery to keep disk data saved upon power
down.

The part number is:  MF32M1-LCDAT01 -Mitsubishi Electric.

There has to be more but 2Mb seems to be the largest PCMCIA-1 SRAM
card I can find.

If you want to try another alternative you could make a SCSI flash
card reader. There's tips on Aminet for PCMCIA-SCSI stuff.

http://de.aminet.net/aminetbin/find?scsi_pcmcia

Title: Re: A1200/600 pcmcia memory cards
Post by: bloodline on January 11, 2005, 12:55:43 PM

I don't think the A1200/A600 can address more than 4meg in the PCMCIA space anyway... oh, and Flash memory doesn't work :-)

Title: Re: A1200/600 pcmcia memory cards
Post by: Linchpin on January 11, 2005, 12:58:28 PM

And its reallly.... slloooowwwwww

But you prolly already knew that.

Title: Re: A1200/600 pcmcia memory cards
Post by: c64_d0c on January 11, 2005, 01:39:19 PM

i got one of them 4mb pcmcia cards and its slow, but a orginal a600 is slow from the start so you shouldnt care about slowness... 2mb chip and 4mb fast did make my a600 experience much better. now i can finally use it to work with deluxe paint/sound trackers more efficient, instead of only playing crappy disk  games... if your wondering i have a 30mb hd, a kickswitch with 1.3 & 3.1 ks rom and a scandoubler/flicker switcher extern for it also :)

a 4mb pcmcia ramcard is a must if you not/cant use an axx card... but  they are damn hard to find, good luck in the hunt ;)
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Title: Re: A1200/600 pcmcia memory cards
Post by: Karlos on January 11, 2005, 01:59:08 PM

Does the 4MB limit apply when using cards formatted as disk?

Title: Re: A1200/600 pcmcia memory cards
Post by: bloodline on January 11, 2005, 03:51:46 PM

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Karlos wrote:
Does the 4MB limit apply when using cards formatted as disk?

I would expect so, as the only real difference between the two is storage after power off, it still has to be addressed by Gayle.

Title: Re: A1200/600 pcmcia memory cards
Post by: adolescent on January 11, 2005, 04:30:36 PM

Not exactly.  The PrepCard utility will only support cards up to 4MB.  But, using a driver like CFD you can use flash media of very large size (I've used 16M).

You can usually find suitable PCMCIA SRAM cards on eBay.  I have a 4M card with battery for my A600.  In OS2.x when you use the card as memory you also get BATT_MEM: (or was it BATT_DISK:) a recoverable 880k RAM disk.  I've been toying with using this as a quick bootdisk to run relokick, etc.  

Title: Re: A1200/600 pcmcia memory cards
Post by: Argus on January 12, 2005, 12:15:50 AM

Okay, so if I understand correctly, I need to look for Type I or Type II SRAM PCMCIA card up to 4MB (will work with PrepCard utility).  If I were to do the scsi thingy, could I use this to give my A600 lots of fast ram or is it that just to set up a disk drive on the pcmcia port?   Thanks for you advice.