Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:12:12 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Works! - HP M820E & Ricoh MP8040SE 4x4x20 CD-RW under DOS w/ Full
>Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:00:17 -0800 (PST) >From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For some reason I always thought that these L50 and L70s didn't have the >power to run a CD-RW drive... but that was because of sheer ignorance and >lack of research. Do they? > > They do. But the HP M820E/Ricoh MP8040SE run only off AC adapter. > If you search ebay for the "PCMCIA CD-RW" you'll bring up lots of EXP >PCMCIA slim CD-RW drives for about $170 that will work with the Libretto >w/o external power supply, straight off the PCMCIA card so says the EXP >tech. support rep. I found the requirements for the HP M820E: http://www.hp.com/cposupport/information_storage/support_doc/lpg40961.html ...and they're saying you need a CPU of at least 133MHz. That would seem to put the stock L50's P75 out of the running here. I wonder if my stock L70 with a P120 has enough to handle it without overclocking. These drives are 4x write and re-write... which make them workable for a <400MHz CPU. I see where a >400MHz CPU is required for the 8x write/re-write drives just to be able to write the data to disk at the 8x data transfer rates. > > >From your note here, it wasn't clear to me whether or not you're sure >if these drives can be made to operate in DOS on the L50/L70s. If they >can, and the cost of these drives is anywhere around or below $75, I'd love >to get one myself. > > Probably. I've got mine running on the L100/110, so it will most likely >run on the L50/70. Only thing I can think of is that it might need a >different ss*.exe driver for the PCMCIA slot. > > Anyone have a L50/70 and can say what it needs to see the PCMCIA slot >under DOS? (probably somewhere in the archives, too....) Are you saying that if you find a set of drivers that enables a L50/70 to see ANY PCMCIA device in DOS, the same drivers will see ALL PCMCIA devices? If this is so, and someone has these files, I'd like to experiment with them. If this is true, I should be able to see my CF card files in its PCMCIA adaptor in DOS.... yes? Maybe I'll experiment with some of the files you've posted. > > On another note... I'm not familiar with what you say are, "PCMCIA card >& socket drivers, needed by the Librettos," though I recall you writing >about this in the past. > > Older notebooks can't see some PCMCIA cards w/o an additional PCMCIA >slotsoftware. In the past, CardSoft was what you got and installed. Not >needed anymore in newer laptops where the HP/Ricoh CD-RW drivers can >install themselves w/o the CS driver under DOS, but will need both on the >older Librettos for this drive. Can I equate "card & socket drivers" = "C&S driver" = "CS driver". And that "CardSoft" is not= "CS". And I'm not sure what "CardSoft" and "CardWizard" mean, and what the distinction between them may be. All new terms and concepts to me. >As I recall, even the L50 or L70 web pages in Japanese showed a Libretto >CD-ROM drive being sold by Toshiba as an accessory. Huh... have you seen the EXP Traveler 2020? http://www.expnet.com/product.nsf/88b61452c2edbafe882564d20002af30/3965d26f5be3b43c88256546006d013b?OpenDocument It's a pretty clunky beast, but it's been working pretty well. Wonder if it's the same drive. > Only tick is that it needs older 1-4x CD-RW discs, mine can't burn/erase >some newer 4x-10x discs. Oh man... hmmm... Does that mean it needs 4x CD-R disks too? Seems the newer, faster CD-R disks work fine in the older 2x desktop CDRW drives I've played with. Wonder why it would make a difference in these drives.... unless your're talking only about CD-RW re-writable disks, and that there's something peculiar to them as opposed to the CD-R disks. I sure wouldn't be burning a lot of them with the Libby. A stack of 50 or 100 4x disks from EBay may be plenty to last. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
