Silly question about internal A1200 IDE port

[SKAN]

I'm working on an A4000 for the most of the time now, but my old A1200 is still here covered by dust... I'd like to have an internal CF2IDE adapter to flashboot OS3.1 and a companion 2.5HDD, let's say 20gb at least. I tried to solve this problem in the past, but nothing has been done, so what i'm gonna ask is this:

since I don't wanna buy an 4x buffered IDE interface and wanna keep the 1200 in its original case, can I use one of these or everything will blow up?

 thanx

[Darklight]

Yes, you can run two IDE devices off the A1200's IDE port using one of those cables, one set as master and the other set as slave.  You just won't be able to use a CD-Rom with the same system without getting a SCSI card or a 4-way interface.

[Argus]

@Darklight

Why can't you run a cdrom off the internal port as slave?  I want to do this with a regular unbuffered interface.

[bloodline]

Argus wrote:
@Darklight

Why can't you run a cdrom off the internal port as slave?  I want to do this with a regular unbuffered interface.

You can, but the internal header only supports two devices... and the original poster wants to have a CF and an HD without a 4X buffer card :-)

[SKAN]

@Darklight

Thanks mate! As for the CD - no problem! I've got a Blizzard SCSIkit along with my Blizzard1260 and both a Yamaha CDRW drive and an external LaCie HDD are wired externally!

 The other silly question now is: my brand new 2.5 40Gb HDD has the usual extra 4 pins to configure master/slave, but does a CF2IDE adapter has them? Haven't bought one yet, just wondering...  :-D

[Darklight]

@ SKAN

No probs.   :-)  With your second question..I don't know.  I haven't used one of the CF2IDE readers, so I really don't know.  Somebody else should though.  If I had to guess, I would say that it should have jumper settings, as it has to conform to IDE, and all IDE devices have Master/Slave jumper settings.  Have a bit of a look on google, there's instructions on how to build the adaptor yourself if you're technologically minded enough, and you should find the particulars on there.  Good luck with it  :-)