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On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Stephen Hosmer wrote:
> On Fri, 19 May 1995 11:51:36 -0400 stevens@watson.ibm.com wrote:
> >Hi, I was wondering what the consensus was on the best CD-ROM drive
> >that will plug into my PCMCIA slot. I notice that Panasonic has a
> >2X drive with PCMCIA card for $290. Has anybody successfully hooked
> >this one up to a 750C?
>
> I have had good success using the adaptec 460 PCMCIA->SCSI and a NEC 3xe
>
> It seems to run fine, I only have one issue. You must have the card in and the drive on at bootup.
> This means that I cannot suspend or Hibernate or I loose the drive.
This is pretty much the same situation with the Panasonic SCSI card (that
comes with the D720 CD ROM). It will load the ASPI driver if the card is
not in (although I haven't yet tried putting in in later and using it,so
tht may not be worth anything), but the CD ASPI driver fails if the drive
is not connected, and MSCDEX won't load unless it can find the driver.
<sigh> MSCDEX I could live with - I can load it from the command line. The
ASPI-CD driver, though, is a device driver, so I have to reboot to use the
CD ROM.
Have I mentioned how much I hate DOS?
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