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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: mintfresh on September 10, 2007, 11:22:39 PM

Title: IDE CDROM on A1200
Post by: mintfresh on September 10, 2007, 11:22:39 PM
I had/have a CDROM drive for my Amiga that connects through the PCMCIA slot. I have since decided to use this slot for a network card, and also would like to tidy up my Amiga setup and get rid of the external devices.

Anyway, onto the question.

How can I fit a standard PC CDROM drive (IDE) to my Amiga? I seem to remember it requiring extra hardware for the IDE interface. At the moment I just have a 3.5" HD connected to the IDE interface.

Looking on AmigaKit I think one of these may be needed

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=42&products_id=532&osCsid=f2363107003f0017db6a03827ead5c97
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=42&products_id=465&osCsid=f2363107003f0017db6a03827ead5c97
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=42&products_id=194&osCsid=f2363107003f0017db6a03827ead5c97

I don't really get the difference between them though, or understand what I need!

I'm also not sure what drives would be compatible. I have a few old CD-ROM drives, some maybe CD-Writers and one is CD/DVD drive.

Any advice would be great, thanks!
Title: Re: IDE CDROM on A1200
Post by: Piru on September 10, 2007, 11:25:01 PM
The A1200 can run two devices in the IDE bus directly, without any need for additional hardware.

However, having proper connectors out of the box sure makes life easier.
Title: Re: IDE CDROM on A1200
Post by: mintfresh on September 10, 2007, 11:41:41 PM
So i should be able to connect the CD ROM without any extra hardware?

I'm guessing I'll need an new IDE cable though, since I'm pretty sure the other one is just a single 2.5-3.5 cable. All my PC ones will be 3.5 ones.
Title: Re: IDE CDROM on A1200
Post by: Piru on September 10, 2007, 11:53:14 PM
Proper cabling and software is all you need. Obviously the CD-ROM requires power too, so that needs to be arranged.

Regarding CD burning: CD-R/W drives work just fine with MakeCD (http://makecd.core.de/). DVD burning is possible with dvdrtools (http://www.aminet.net/package/disk/cdrom/dvdrtools-68k) at least.
Title: Re: IDE CDROM on A1200
Post by: mintfresh on September 11, 2007, 12:00:36 AM
Power should be ok. The Amiga is in a tower case with a standard PC power supply.

What software will I need for the drive? I'm not to bothered about being able to write CD's or anything, although impressed to hear that the Amiga can do that! Just need the basic device drivers I suppose? Not sure where to start with that though!
Title: Re: IDE CDROM on A1200
Post by: rkauer on September 11, 2007, 02:13:11 AM
 Just download IDEfix97 from Aminet.

 If you don't want to pay the shareware fee, you could try AsimCDFS, from the same source.