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Re: Connecting a CD drive to my A1200
« on: February 14, 2010, 05:12:08 PM »
Quote from: rossi46;543086
Hi all.
 
I'm looking to connect an external CD drive to my A1200 and was wondering what my choice of drives actually is. I have the Surf Squirrel SCSI cable already. Can I add any SCSI CD drive?
 
Alternatively, how easy is it to add an IDE laptop drive to the A1200? Do I need extra cables, drivers or software?
 
Thanks
 
Paul

As you already have the Squirrel I would go down that route. I have one and use an external SCSI CDROM with no issues at all :)
 
I got an external case off eBay For around £15 quid all inc :
 
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250360350348
 
and any cheap 50 pin SCSI CDROM drive will go into that nicely, job done :)
The IDE method involves a bit more messing around and also means you have a reboot when you start the Amiga cold for the IDEFix patch to become resident.
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Amiga 4000/040 25Mhz - 18MB Ram-HDD-CDRW- Picasso 2 2MB GFX OS3.9
Amiga 2000/030 25Mhz - 10MB Ram - GVP HC+8 with HDD and CDROM OS3.1 and a DKB MEGAChip
Amiga 1200/030 50Mhz - 18MB Ram - CF>IDE OS3.1 Squirrel SCSI
A500+ 000/7Mhz - 4MB Ram GVP HD+ SCSI w/40MB HDD (WOW!!)
Plus a "few" more ;) hehe
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