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PCMCIA, USB, A1200, etc - answer is probably no but anyway
« on: June 12, 2004, 10:36:09 PM »
I'm guess I'm asking this on the slightest off-chance really, but here goes :-)

I'm getting an external DVD writer (USB) for my laptop.  I'm also getting a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card because my laptop only can do USB 1.1, and that would suck for writing DVDs/CDs.

Is there any possibility that such a combination of hardware could go into my A1200 and at least work as a CD-ROM drive?  Any there any generic drivers that could possibly aid me in such a quest?

I'm not a developer, so I won't be writing my own drivers at any point soon.
 

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Re: PCMCIA, USB, A1200, etc - answer is probably no but anyway
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2004, 11:17:19 PM »
Ah, bugger, I had forgotten about that.

One thing though, I remember a few years ago connecting a Sony PCMCIA CD drive to my A1200 and getting a reading on it in the PCMCIA info tool in Workbench.  I remember that could at least do DMA transfers on the Sony laptop it was for (with Windows).  Or do you still get some useful info about a CardBus card in an A1200 with the info tool?

Also - the drive is USB 1.1 compatible, it doesn't require USB 2.0.  I realise that if the PCMCIA card isn't compatible with the A1200, that makes little difference, but I thought I'd mention it.