Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: Do PC PCMCIA CDdrives work with the A1200?  (Read 1520 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline McVenco

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2006
  • Posts: 1428
    • Show all replies
    • http://www.amigascene.nl
Re: Do PC PCMCIA CDdrives work with the A1200?
« on: November 03, 2006, 08:21:38 PM »
Quote

JJ wrote:
I used to have an overdrive and it was just a pcmcia card which connected to a standard x2 cdrom.


No it's not. Inside the pcmcia connector of the Overdrive is a separate IDE controller, which the CD drive uses, so unless this pcmcia drive on Ebay has an IDE controller built in, it most unlikely to function just like that.
I doubt it would work at all though.
| A4000 | CS-MK3 060@50 | Picasso IV |
| Member of Team Amiga (tm) | FidoNet 2:286/414.18 (long ago) |
| SysOp The Missing Channel BBS | Member of AGA BBS Intl. |