SONY VAIO PCMCIA CD-ROM on an AMIGA 1200

26 January 2006, 23:26

I have an old sony vaio notebook.
It has an external cd player with a standard built-in pcmcia connector.
No power supply. It gets the power directly from the connector.

I have tried to connect the cd player to my amiga 1200's pcmcia port.
It seems to be accepted.
no problems. the computer runs normaly in any condition.

I can eject the tray and load a disc.
if I insert a disc inside, the player can recognize it and initialize.

The main problem is that I cannot use the drive with WB.
I guess I have to install and mount a proper driver in order to use the device.

PLEASE can somebody suggest me a generic driver to use with?
Which lines I should insert in my startup-sequence for a better usage?

thanks in advance

keropi · 27 January 2006, 00:27

AFAIK there is no such driver... the only relevant thing that comes in mind is the squirell, a scsi-2-pcmcia interface, but its drivers wont work with what u use...

alexh · 27 January 2006, 12:19

Get us some details about the model numbers, photo's etc.

cv643d · 28 January 2006, 00:28

It wont work. The Vaio CD-rom uses custom hardware and only works with the Vaio notebook.

I have a Vaio notebook but no CD-rom so if you want to sell it PM a price.

28 January 2006, 10:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexh

Get us some details about the model numbers, photo's etc.

the notebook:

http://vcl.vaio.sony.co.jp/support/note/pcg-sr1bp.html

http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/PCOM/PCG-SR9/

the cd-rom drive:

http://www.ittrc.sony.co.jp/support/acc/pcga-cd5.html

28 January 2006, 10:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by cv643d

It wont work. The Vaio CD-rom uses custom hardware and only works with the Vaio notebook.

I have a Vaio notebook but no CD-rom so if you want to sell it PM a price.

sorry but it is not on sale.

but the way, connected to the amiga port, it looks to be operative but WB cannot recognize the unit.

on the vaio user manual it's written that the connector is a standard pcmcia 2.0 adapter for the atapi/ide cd-rom player.

it is not a custom HW becuase I used it on a NEC notebook (OS win 98se, win xp).

No generic IDE/SCSI drivers for WB 3.1 to use with the pcmcia port?

26 January 2006, 23:26	#1
Kinchan Posts: n/a	SONY VAIO PCMCIA CD-ROM on an AMIGA 1200 I have an old sony vaio notebook. It has an external cd player with a standard built-in pcmcia connector. No power supply. It gets the power directly from the connector. I have tried to connect the cd player to my amiga 1200's pcmcia port. It seems to be accepted. no problems. the computer runs normaly in any condition. I can eject the tray and load a disc. if I insert a disc inside, the player can recognize it and initialize. The main problem is that I cannot use the drive with WB. I guess I have to install and mount a proper driver in order to use the device. PLEASE can somebody suggest me a generic driver to use with? Which lines I should insert in my startup-sequence for a better usage? thanks in advance

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27 January 2006, 00:27	#2
keropi . Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ioannina/Greece Posts: 5,040	AFAIK there is no such driver... the only relevant thing that comes in mind is the squirell, a scsi-2-pcmcia interface, but its drivers wont work with what u use...

27 January 2006, 12:19	#3
alexh Thalion Webshrine Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oxford Posts: 14,431	Get us some details about the model numbers, photo's etc.

28 January 2006, 00:28	#4
cv643d Registered User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 762	It wont work. The Vaio CD-rom uses custom hardware and only works with the Vaio notebook. I have a Vaio notebook but no CD-rom so if you want to sell it PM a price.

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