@Malakie,
Jose wrote:
Welcome aboard. To get a CD rom working off the A1200 IDE port you're advised to get an adapter to make the port buffered as the A1200's isnt. Then it's just a matter of getting the right filesystem. I recomend CacheCDFS, available on Aminet. BTW, don't run the CD Rom's power off the A1200 motherboard, you'll risk burning it.
José
He's right you know - I had a 3.5" HDD and an external CDROM attached to my A1200's 2.5" IDE port via a two way adaptor cable, and fried the Julia Chip, and half the chip RAM ! luckily it was '97 so I could take it to a shop in Wolverhampton who still handled Amiga repairs. next thing I ordered IDEFix'97 (EIDE drivers for CDROM and a 4 device buffer board) from Power, as it happens.
that board was never quite right, but I never killed it again!
its not the power drain that kills em (my external IDE CDROM was self powered) but its power spikes and over current down the IDE port from big IDE devices that kill unprotected motherboards.
Amigakit.com can supply all you need !
