Amiga to PC file trans..

[Hodgkinson]

Errrm, not sure about that. There might be a problem with the fact that your HDD is formatted for your Amiga, and your USB controller won't have a clue what's its looking at!

The best way for transferring files is to link the two machines together with a network, keep an eye out for a 3Com 3C589D PCMCIA network card - There's Amiga drivers for them and they work great!

Other possibilities are CrossDOS (I assume your already aware of this...), parallel or serial link with one of those USB adaptors (From what I've heard the adaptors aren’t all that reliable...); and then there’s a Subway to allow you to use USB on your Amiga.

Merry Christmas,
Hodgkinson.

[Hodgkinson]

Im sure Amigakit had wireless PCMCIA network cards in at some point...

The only snag with wireless networking is that actually encrypting the network and locking it down whilst still being able to use your A1200 is nigh on impossible to any decent degree.

Hodgkinson.

EDIT: Ah, yes they were available:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=21&products_id=121&osCsid=6172225b004b3bc595a587b59ffacf55

And they might come around again some day.

[Hodgkinson]

Connecting a CD-Writer shouldn't be too much of a problem (Though I haven't actually done this myself...). It might require some buggering about with long IDE leads and power splitters/extensions to make it possible, though.

If you're thinking of transferring files on a regular basis, Id still go down the network route. Although, for some reason I find pulling files from a PC onto the Amiga to be far far far faster than pushing them back the other way. But that might just be a foible of my setup having 3 hubs and 50m of networking cable in between the Amiga and PC.

Hodgkinson.