Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 06:19:27 -0800 (PST)
From: "Kevin McClelland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] CD Roms
I would agree. It would be nice to have it run off the
PCMCIA, but no great loss to me. I really only use the
CDROM to install programs, which I would do at home
anyway. Most of the other drives with PCMCIA only do
indeed run off the card for power. The backpack was the
first portable CDROM I bought, and got it for my L100CT
when I first purchased it last year. More concerned
about having parallel connections for OSinstall and the
like, since I had heard that was the easiest way to do
it. Works fine for me anyway.
Raymond wrote
>
> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:40:25 +0800
> From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [LIB] CD Roms
>
> At 06:30 AM 1/04/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> >Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 06:23:17 -0800 (PST)
> >From: "Kevin McClelland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: [LIB] CD Roms
> >
> >I have a 24x Backpack Bantam that works very well,
has
> >both PCMCIA and parallel port hookups, so it works
> >admirably in DOS as well. Only drawback is it does
need
> >an AC adapter to run, but the adapter that is
included
> >is extremely lightweight. I have heard that the PC
Card
> >powered drives will run off a Libretto, but I have no
> >direct experience with them, so I cannot confirm
that.
>
> I've got a Teac PortaCD 10x that runs off a rebadged
NinjaATA PCMCIA IDE card which actually picks up
straight away under the latest version of Linux Card
and Socket services. It doesn't need an external AC
adapter and in fact doesn't seem to load the battery
much at all when its in use ... I was of the impression
that most other PCMCIA CD-ROM drives didn't need
external power either. I do know the 24x PCMCIA drives
we had at work to use with Porteges don't load the
batteries on their laptops much either. I'd imagine the
Backpack unit would need AC because of its parallel
interface (and they perhaps couldn't be bothered
designing it to use PCMCIA power when connected through
PCMCIA) ...
>
>
> - Raymond
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