PCMCIA CD-Drive Driver's!

[Jope]

watcher wrote:
Hi
the Amacom drive has a 16-bit PCMCIA card, so it will work then?

Drivers, drivers.. If you can find suitable drivers. Not likely.

Also the Blizzard has a 68030 @ 50MHz and a 68882 @ 50MHz it is also fitted with 32MB of RAM!

Would this machine be able to run OS 4.0

No. You need a PPC card for that

and surf the web?

Yes, if you're not in a hurry and enjoy looking at low-colour low-resolution screen modes. (I didn't check to see if you mentioned anything about a vga card, sorry :-)

or do i still have alot of work to do??!

Depends on what you want to do with the machine.. :-)

If you want to do any serious work, get a tower + PCI expansion + proper vga card.. I don't know how long the 030 will last, though..

[Jope]

Ryu wrote:
you want to get the e IDEFix package from aminet, its only a demo but its fully functioning bar the annoying requester. It comes with an IDE driver for the PCMCIA slot, I used to use a PCMCIA IDE CD-Rom drive on my amiga many years ago :-)

What PCMCIA CD-ROM did you use? The Alfa Data one?

I wouldn't be so optimistic on this drive working - the PCMCIA-adapters the IDE-Fix package supports are just adapters, they aren't controllers..

Basically they speak ide through the PCMCIA port whereas I'm pretty sure the OP's PCMCIA card is an actual IDE controller on a card, like a PC would expect..