Cd-Rom for A-1200?

[Thorham]

Apart from normal IDE, I have good experience with the Squirrel SCSI adapter. More info here. It plugs into the PCMCIA slot on the 1200 and the other end goes to a CD-ROM unit. You can also add more devices by daisy-chain, like ZIP-drives for example.

And then you need old SCSI CD ROM drives. Much better to just buy a 25 bucks IDE DVD re-writer in the peecee shoppe around the corner.

[Thorham]

I'd second the vote for SCSI over IDE, but then as mentioned above, you'd need some kind of SCSI adapter (either via accelerator card or PCMCIA).  Haven't looked lately but a year or so back I could buy external SCSI CD drives on ebay all day long for under $5.  

And then you're stuck with an old CD Rom drive. Mechanical devices wear over time when used, and you have no way of knowing how much such a drive was used (unless you can get NOS drives, of course). Same goes for hard drives. Always buy new if possible.

New IDE DVD re-writers can be connected to the A1200's internal IDE port. Just use IdeFix software. I have a Samsung 22 speed DVD re-writer. Cost me 22 euros, and burning both CDs and DVDs works properly.

[Thorham]

Lucky you!

Indeed. When I bought a DVD re-writer for my old Pentium III peecee, I tried it on my Amiga first (to see what would happen), and it wouldn't burn anything. Definitely not everything will just work. Even the drive I'm using now needs some non-standard settings, or disk changes won't be detected.