@ gafstu
What Doobrey is saying is that many expansion cards for the A1200 cause the PCMCIA port to stop working completely because they put part of their ram in the same address space as the PCMCIA port. RAM only expansions are more likely to do this than accelerators however. To solve the problem, you need to disable the second 4mb of ram on your expansion card, therefore leaving the PCMCIA port conflict free. If you get a decent accelerator card (like a Blizzard, for example), it addresses the RAM in a different space so the PCMCIA port works. So either get a good accelerator and add as much ram to it as you like, and your CD-Rom will work, or disable 4 mb on your current card, that should fix it. :-)
