A1200-compatible ATAPI devices

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

HI,

Has anyone ever comprised a list of A1200-compatible IDE CD-ROMs, etc.?

The reason I ask this is that ever since putting in one of those Elbox 4xEIDE interfaces in my A1200 a couple weeks ago, I've been experimenting with the old gal again.  The first CD-ROM I tried, a brand new Sony CDU5221 52x, was just a complete dog.  With it even connected to the bus the system would boot MAYBE 1 in 20 times.  All of the other times sometimes I could boot as far as a CLI prompt before it would crash shortly later (during any random event - loading a file, inserting a PCMCIA card, starting C:4xEIDE.driver, MCP, just siting there, whatever), other times it would just cause a system reset or guru, over and over, before even giving me the early startup control menu.

Now after some serious fretting that it was my interface, take that Sony drive and pitch it across the room.  Add one older model IBM 24x drive.  No problems ever since. :-D

(I did send a mention of this to support@elbox.com, but no reply yet.)

Mike

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I don't know how these work but maybe your faster CD drive takes a while to get enough power to spin up or something, and it confuses the interface.

Yup, that was a big part of my problem, thanks for your help!   (along with a loose connection at the interface-->motherboard point and master/slave issues).  I'm now back to using that faster drive, housed in a hollowed out A1020 5 1/4 floppy drive case.  Everything's hooked into my UPS, so it all comes on simultaneously now.  The A1020 wound up being the perfect choice, and it looks so nice sitting next to the A1200.  Maybe one of these days I'll get around to posting a pic...

Thanks,
Mike

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Floid wrote:

...corrupting the IDE chain(s) while the poor miggy then tries to boot.

 :-D  :-D  :-D

(Sorry, I'm just now finding your response here.  That sounds like my "poor miggy" about every other day!!)