Guru-ROM in a GVP sidecar?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Bought one of that new run of Guru-ROM's over on Amibay.  The product itself works great, but I didn't think this through very well and it doesn't quite fit inside a GVP sidecar, LOL.  Oh well, it's crammed in there for now and working perfectly, just curious if anyone else has ever installed one of these before, how'd you do it?

Off-hand I can think of a couple ways... use a ribbon cable to relocate the socket, or try to solder the PCB directly to the GVP board.  Or I suppose I could dremel through the drive mounting plate and try to give it a little vertical clearance...

Not a big deal at all, just fishing for ideas how other folks might've done this in the past.  :lol:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Finally decided to solve my own problem, here.  Wasn't having any luck getting a SCSI2SD to work in the sidecar (even though they fit great, all it did was crash... lack of instructions probably didn't help)...  So went back to the drawing board and completely removed the Mechware card reader from its frame.  In hindsight it seems pretty obvious.  Now she fits with the sidecar case closed.  I just couldn't stand looking at that being crooked anymore!  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Brilliant! Looks native like that too.  Nice job! Did you add that little heat sink on top?

Thanks!  And yup.  Added heatsinks everywhere inside my Miggy's.  Even though they don't get that hot, why not preserve them for as long as possible, you know?

Your Mechware card reader being a different model than mine is quit interesting. Mine has a PCMCIA slot and a CF card slot. However, your PCMCIA adapter slides in nearly flush with the front of main circuit board where mine sticks out about 1.5 inches.

Mine are PCD-60b's.  I think yours is a 50.

Which got me to thinking... I wonder if a wireless card (which would stick out of the slot on my model) would work in the PCMCIA slot? Now that I think about it, maybe even a 32bit card might work - have to check the specs on the slot. I think I'll try it!

That's a negatory on that.  Even if it does physically fit, there's no drivers or software support.  Of course someone could try to write drivers...  :lol:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

if you are ever wanting to try the SCSI2SD in the sidecar again, try this.

Thanks!  I think my SCSI2SD is a lemon.  Probably just going to toss it into my box of other Amiga bits to sell and let it be someone else's problem to figure out.  :lol: