Amiduffer wrote:
The cheaper route, if you can locate one, is the SquirrelSCSI, which allows you to hook up external SCSI peripherals through the PCMCIA slot.
Yes, but then you lose the pcmcia port for ethernet card use. See if you can find a Dataflyer SCSI+ for the internal 44pin ide header; it lets you use non-dma scsi drive access by fooling the native ide port into thinking scsi drives are ide. Not very fast though. Probably better is to buy a 4 device buffered ide adaptor for the 44-pin header, run a 3.5" 40-pin cable out the back of the A1200 case and use any old ide cdrom drive with IDEfix97 (shareware version on Aminet, iirc).
In that case it's recommended to power the A1200 and the external cdrom drive from an old PCAT power supply. You'll need to purchase or make a connector from your old power supply to power the A1200. Works nice though and no more p/s issues.
