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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Hodgkinson on September 04, 2007, 12:16:54 PM

Title: CD-ROM Mounting in a A1200 case
Post by: Hodgkinson on September 04, 2007, 12:16:54 PM

Hello everyone,
Has anyone ever managed to mount a laptop CD-ROM drive on the left hand side of an A1200? - So that the tray opens out in the same direction as PCMCIA cards are removed from the PCMCIA slot?

Unfortunately, I have equipment surrounding the right hand side and back of my A1200, leaving the left hand side the only feasible place to mount a laptop CD-ROM drive. Is there sufficient room on the side of the A1200 - And inside the A1200 with the shielding and HDD caddy in place?

From what I can see, on the basis of a laptop CD-ROM drive being a centimetre or so wider than the disks that it takes, holding a CD against the side of the A1200 seems to indicate that the side of the A1200 might need considerable rework to make such a upgrade possible - And have a acceptable appearance. Is there any way around this?

Thanks in advance,
Hodgkinson.

Title: Re: CD-ROM Mounting in a A1200 case
Post by: textory on September 04, 2007, 12:39:22 PM

Hi,
a year ago I was looking for a solution for the same problem. That time the homepage of a guy named Robert Wicksall was online, but it seems it has been removed from the web months ago.
There is a german site, where the two possibilities (the one by Wicksall and another one by Egon Kohlschuetter) is documented.

http://gutjahr.free.fr/index.php?language=de&page=1200cd
http://gutjahr.free.fr/index.php?page=cd1200&language=de

I'm not sure if it's helpful because it's in German.

Greetings

Title: Re: CD-ROM Mounting in a A1200 case
Post by: Hodgkinson on September 04, 2007, 01:10:28 PM

Thanks for the pages. Fortunately there’s a "English" button on the top left of the pages :-)

The bottom link is exactly what I was thinking of, except using my existing 2.5" laptop drive and retaining the internal floppy drive.

FYI, just in case, I’ve saved both webpage’s offline plus all the large photos.

Regards,
Hodgkinson.

Title: Re: CD-ROM Mounting in a A1200 case
Post by: Nickman on September 04, 2007, 01:19:47 PM

There are some pictures on this site too ;)
And im about to do what you ask.

amiga4001 did a great job on his A1200:
CD-Rom left side 1 (http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1934=10)

CD-Rom left side 2 (http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1926=10)

CD-Rom left side 3 (http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1942=10)

Title: Re: CD-ROM Mounting in a A1200 case
Post by: koaftder on September 04, 2007, 01:23:00 PM

I've always been amazed at the amount of time and effort people put into doing good quality a1200 mods. (except for that one where dude spray painted his machine black, yuk)

Title: Re: CD-ROM Mounting in a A1200 case
Post by: Hodgkinson on September 04, 2007, 08:32:04 PM

Just need to find a CD-ROM drive, IDE-Adaptor, cables, IDE-Buffer board, and more importantly...

A way to fit the drive without having to totally remove the metal shielding! Its kinda important since the A1200 is being used as part of a Amateur Radio setup.

I wonder how many people have upgraded their A1200's whilst managing to keep the shielding in place?

Btw, Amigakit , if you can possibly stock these special IDE adaptors for the CD-ROM drives, then when I finally decide (One day, possibly) to add a CD-ROM drive to any of my A1200's I’d buy the adaptor from your company rather than Ebay (Hint).

Thanks,
Hodgkinson.