PCMCIA, USB, A1200, etc - answer is probably no but anyway

[mikeymike]

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.

[fragment]

No, the USB 2.0 cards are 32bit CardBus cards and A1200 only supports 16bit PCMCIA cards.

[ncafferkey]

fragment wrote:
No, the USB 2.0 cards are 32bit CardBus cards and A1200 only supports 16bit PCMCIA cards.

So are the 1.0 and 1.1 cards for that matter.

[mikeymike]

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.

[leirbag28]

@mikeymike

The USB DVD might work if you had a Subway USB card on your 1200...maybe???  I am sure someone must have invented a USB 1.1 PCMCIA card that is for a 16bit PCMCIA port................theres gotta be one.