Analogic told me their card shouldn't conflict with WB3.0 and it doesn't as long as the PCMCIA card is inserted after boot and file sizes are small. Which for writing adf's to disk is fine for the moment. If I'm going to put on a PCMCIA CD-Rom or my WiFi card then I'd probably need to Edit the startup-sequence with the LoadModule/cardres line to fix that.
I'd like to know more about the 'operators' and syntax of cardres.ld.strip to know it's usage parameters but haven't been able to find any info.
I don't know what a B494 is other than a musical frequency! I can't see it on google anywhere! and the 2.5" drives I've seen are hard disks and not for importing files into the A1200. Mmmm 
B494 is 1993 the year I bought my treasured A1200. The computer came fitted with a 2.5" internal hard drive. I have 26 Amiga 1200s and 16 of them run with internal hard drives. I am not sure what the importing means... I have over 13000 DD disks and pretty much every bit of software and game made for the Amiga. Original that is and not imported or downloaded.
An accelerator does what an accelerator does. It improves the performance of the Amiga. if you play say SIMCITY2000 with a base 1200 it is like walking through treacle. Get a 1230 and it just eases the pain. My first accelerator was a GVP1230 which I still have. I swapped it for a Blizzard Turbo so I could use the SCSIKIT off the accelerator and free up the PCMCIA for the ethernet so I could network using SAMBA. I have two SCSI drives, CDROM and ZIP drive hooked up to the SCSI port on the back of the 1200. The computer also benefits from being networked to a dozen or so machines. I can go on line with Broadband using Miami but choose to use a modern PC for that.
The trap door slot on the 1200 was designed to fit accelerator cards and RAM expansions so it really isn't an issue knocking out the slower processor. You do have options on boot and in the software to configure just how you like, but playing my animations on a base 1200 is just so slow.
So there you have it B494 is 1993... a good year for me. Most of my stuff runs on the original kit so I don't do Goteks, CF cards, etc Just the stuff that was available in the early nineties... on the whole, with the exception of the ethernet. I use Squirrels on other machines and expand that way. I just have to have a ZIP drive though. 100MB is all you need to back up most Amigas and carrying the ZIP from drive to drive is so quick and easy. I also still use 5.25" drives for some stuff... need it with the 1060. I have a 5.25 on the IBM so I can make disks. Very useful with the Checkmate. You gotta love the old kit. Great fun.
By the way I have three 2.5" drives in the freezer. Work that one out.
