Classic Amiga Compatible PC Hardware

[countzero]

There is a nice list of pc floppies that work or can be made to work with classic amiga's here.
I wonder if there is a page like this about pcmcia ethernet cards (or any other pcmcia card) which can be used with a a1200. I will visit a notebook graveyard this week, and I think I can salvage some equipment from junk laptops. Are the rams (notebook) useful for any amiga accelerator or expansion ? And I think it's a good idea to look for old 2.5 hdd's. Anything else that can be salvaged from an old notebook that can fit an amiga ?

[Dan]

maybe cdrom-drives? Some people have fitted slimline cd-roms inside their A1200s.
As for the ethernet cards check the readme of the drivers on aminet. If you want to find out which brands/models of ethernetcards that uses which chipset I´m sure it´s listed on several Linux-sites(sorry don´t have the links anymore).

[Argus]

@countzero

Regular 3Com Etherlink pcmcia cards work with the driver on Aminet (model 3C589D). Wireless cards using the prism2 chipset work (e.g. Linksys WPC11) on the pcmcia slot with the beta driver written by an amiga.org member (do a topic search). If you can find >=4MB 16-bit pcmcia SDRAM memory cards, they work with the PrepCard utility.  PCMCIA SanDisk PC flash cards work with the Aminet driver for mass storage.  The thin ide cdroms can be made to work with a 3rd party ide adaptor and a case mod.  Of course, just about any 2.5" ide harddisk should work (with possible pin 1 modification). Memory is probably not useable, though SODIMMs work on the newer uA1 boards.

[Effy]

Dan : you probably mean this link where the CDrom has been mounted at the left rear of the A1200  :-o It´s a fully detailed discription of how to get such a slimline laptop CDrom or even CDrewriter in your A1200 desktop  :lol:
It´s really impressive   :lol:

[countzero]

I found a nice pcmcia compatibility page here :

http://www.g-mb.de/pcmcia_e.html

[Effy]

Looks a bit linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters like this one  :-)