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Old 04-29-2003, 08:57 AM   #1
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Default Are Blizzard A1200 expansion boards PCMCIA-friendly?
Are Blizzard A1200 expansion boards PCMCIA-friendly? I am thinking particularly of the A1260/50.

If not, which boards are?

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Old 04-29-2003, 09:10 AM   #2
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Default Re: Are Blizzard A1200 expansion boards PCMCIA-friendly?
Yes, they are PCMCIA-friendly. If you want to get an accellerator for your A1200, i'd absolutely recommend to get a Blizzard, they're simply excellent.
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Old 04-29-2003, 09:48 AM   #3
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Yes, they are PCMCIA-friendly.
Good, because I am hoping to get a Blizzard 1260/50 and a Squirrel SCSI.

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Old 04-29-2003, 10:19 AM   #4
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Why not get the Blizzard SCSI addon? I think that's much faster and better than a crappy 16 bit/no-DMA PCMCIA solution.
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Old 04-29-2003, 11:06 AM   #5
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I've been after a blizzard scsi kit for ages, people seem to be selling them for ablut £70 because there is such a high demand for them.

The only think I dont like about my blizzard is that it seems to have slow ram access times. Before I had my blizzard 030/50 I had an apollo 030/33 that was PCMCIA unfriendly, but even after clocking the blizzard up to 60mhz it still doesn't feel as fast as the apollo.
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Old 04-29-2003, 02:03 PM   #6
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My Squirrel SCSI works fine with a Blizzard 1260, so you should have no probs. Like everyonoe else though i'd prefer a SCSI addon - just for the extra 128MB of RAM alone.

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Old 04-29-2003, 02:04 PM   #7
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ÝOu could try overclocking it to 66 MHz. Perhaps you get one wait state less then , when accessing the amiga chips.
After overclocking my Blizzard1240-25 to 33 MHz chip ram access speed increased.
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So far my Blizzard 1230 Rv3 and BlizzardPPC040 seem to have been PCMCIA friendly but I must admit I've not plugged too many things into the PCMCIA slot yet.
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Old 04-29-2003, 03:27 PM   #9
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All the Blizzard cards are PCMCIA friendly except the Blizzard 1220/4. A external Zappo PCMCIA HD drive does not work with Blizzard 1230 IV and Blizzard 1260. I use them both with SCSI-kits. The B1260 with 2x 64MB EDO RAM and B1230 IV with 48 MB of RAM. The following PCMCIA expansions I tested are Squirrel SCSI Controller, Target and Dynalink 10Mbit Network cards. If you are going to buy a secondhand SCSI-kit, you have to check the SCSI ROM version. Avoid rom version below 8.1, because it locks your computer up when using a CD-ROM drive or other removable drives. There is a program (softSCSI) to patch your older SCSI version to 8.1 or higher, but I sometimes have lockups.
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I have a BlizzPPC 040 and I can't say I had any conficts with the PCMCIA port to which I have an IDE CD ROM interface attached. Not had any problems so far..

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Your right about the SCSI - finding the cabling is a nightmare though!
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@Karlos:

Ah okay, I've never touched SCSI in my life but I have heard some stories on the stupid (non?) standards of SCSI cabling.
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I got a Blizzard card working quite good with the PCMCIA

Allthough I recently found out that when having a Mediator with jumper set to 8mb the PCMCIA can cause graphic distortion when being filled.

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