yep i took a cd burner from my pc that quit working
there and put it in my 1200, no problems for nearly a
year now, guess pc just does something to cd rom drives.
on the ide, i haven't looked at any pictures but you may have
the ide set for EIDE mode where it would cause the older
hard drive to act up. see if there is a setting on the
ide board to slect the modes, and if your not using
any scsi if it has a pin setting bypass check SCSI
first. then unplug all cd rom drives and other hard drives except
master Hd and see if it boots. if it does shut down and add one
device at a time run the software for that device.also
if this helps get you going there is an update driver
to the ide fix on aminet.net i believe, that will
get more speed from your EIDE drives. I've been using EIDE EXPRESS
and its worked very well... good luck
