Do PC PCMCIA CDdrives work with the A1200?

[Amiduffer]

Guys, over on comp.sys.amiga, a guy is asking if pc pcmcia cddrives he's looking at on ebay will work in his 1200.

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Now until he pointed out the Overdrive (in the BigBook) I had never heard of such a product. So I'm curious now, would those work in the A1200 with the Overdrive drivers?

[Piru]

No

[jj]

Doubtful, though I used to have an overdrive and it was just a pcmcia card which connected to a standard x2 cdrom.  Im guessing that the converter used would be pretty generic.  But it would have to a type I card, and I wouldnt like to shell out the cash to try it, unless it was cheap and/or u had a laptop without a cd-rom to use it on if didnt work

[Doobrey]

I just looked at some of those listed above on ebay, most are 32bit cards, so they're a definate no-no.

[McVenco]

JJ wrote:
I used to have an overdrive and it was just a pcmcia card which connected to a standard x2 cdrom.

No it's not. Inside the pcmcia connector of the Overdrive is a separate IDE controller, which the CD drive uses, so unless this pcmcia drive on Ebay has an IDE controller built in, it most unlikely to function just like that.
I doubt it would work at all though.

[whabang]

You would need a PC card with it's own controller, as I doubt the Amiga PCMCIA controller support other ATA devices than memory cards.

[Amiduffer]

Thanks for the quick replies everyone. I copied your answers so hopefully he won't waste his money on one.

Shame though.

At least you can hook up a USB CDdrive (if you can't get a squirellSCSI or a Blizzard SCSI kit.