Anyone have experience using a portable CD-ROM drive designed for Windows on
their PowerBook?  Such as the Panasonic, Addonics, or Freecom portables?

I'm especially interested in whether CD-ROM Toolkit drivers overcome the
fact that the PCMCIA interface on these drives was not designed for the Mac.
These machines are so much cheaper and more available than the few Mac-only
portable drives.  Plus the Addonics and Freecom drives have such sleek
designs.

Denis writes below about using a Panasonic KXL-810A with his 2400c.  Anyone
else have similar experiences?  And can these portables handle the higher
RPMs without excessive noise or dancing around your desktop?  I once
returned a portable Pioneer 24X drive because of the noise and dancing, but
I'd love to try out another product.

thanks,
glenn

>Subject: Xings Audio catalist MP3 Encoder
>From: Denis DeLaRoca
> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 04:02:22 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I am trying to run Xing's Audio Catalist MP3 encoder (www.xingtech.com) on
>a Powerbook 2400c with an external Panasonic KXL-810A CD-ROM drive with
>the CD-ROM Toolkit drivers . . .

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