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|> Does the Panasonic PD have a SCSI interface
Yup (there is also a Mac-specific interface, I believe).
|> and does it come with a PCMCIA SCSI card?
Nope.
|> If not, what card are you using with it?
I bought an Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA card to use with it.
|> Are you running under Win95?
Good Lord, no, I run a real operating system. However, due to a
technicality (i.e. my employment), I am at times forced to run DOS/Windoze.
Just boot with the included driver and you've got a 650 meg drive. Insert
a disk and partition/format as you like.
I'm not exactly sure the driver is needed -- perhaps only for DOS/Windoze.
When I run Linux, the standard SCSI and filesystem drivers have no problem
recognizing the drive, whether it has a CD-ROM, DOS, or native Linux
filesystem. No speical drivers were needed.
|> Is there only one model (PD?)
As far as I've seen, only one (external) by Panasonic, although I hear that
they simply OEM the guts of the other maker's drives (there are one or two
other "competing" drives, one I saw for sure being a tad smaller).
The one I got cost 110,000 yen, or about US$1,100.
Jeffrey
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Jeffrey Friedl <jfriedl@omron.co.jp> Omron Corp, Nagaokakyo, Kyoto 617 Japan
See my Jap<->Eng dictionary at http://www.wg.omron.co.jp/cgi-bin/j-e
and http://enterprise.ic.gc.ca/cgi-bin/j-e