PCMCIA flashram...which one?

[Hyperspeed]

If you want fast solid-state disk access on the PCMCIA port you could
try those old battery-backed PCMCIA Mitsubishi Melcard. They come in
2mb size I think but there may be 4mb ones.

Usually battery backed SRAM is too slow as memory (100ns is the
fastest) but makes super-fast disk storage. PCMCIA won't allow a great
transfer rate but no doubt seek time would be practically zero.

According to Tools/PrepCard there is some way to get 64mb by using 2mb
in 32x `units'. Quite what this means I don't know.

You have to consider that should the button-battery die then your
files will also disappear.

A more novel option might be to put a Squirrel SCSI interface on the
PCMCIA port and use a SCSI card reader. Buy some Compact Flash cards
or whichever ones your reader uses and format it like a hard disk!

:-)

You can also have 7x of these with SCSI... or if you like have an IDE
card reader.

[Hyperspeed]

You can buy internal SiliconTech drives for the IDE interface on the
A1200. They are almost wafer-thin solid-state flash drives and work on
IDE. They just screw into the cradle and give you 800mb of permanent,
non-volatile disk space.

Also, it's worth trying my Squirrel -> SCSI card reader idea too.
There is info on Aminet how to use a SCSI card reader as a drive.

If you use a SCSI one it might get 3mb/s and with very low seek times,
no noise or heat and ever lasting!

:-D

Also, if you just have a spare 64mb Compact Flash card, you can buy
simple IDE->Compact Flash adaptors that allow you to put your Compact
Flash card into the A1200's IDE port. Simple as that. Probably looks
like a small lego block or something.

;-)