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I bought a Road Warrior Bullet external 2.5" drive carrier for the 540M Thinkpad drive that I am replacing with the 1G Quantum. The carrier is nice and compact, connects to the printer port (so likely slow), and is supposed to be powered by the mouse/keyboard port power. It seems perfect for rebuilding a clean disk and for portable future use. Only problem(s)... 1) I can't seem to get it to be recognized through the TP parallel port. 2) The power from the ThinkPad mouse/key port is not enough to run it. I am driving the power from another nearby machine's mouse port (I don't have an external power supply). So that may be OK (still can't tell if it's enough power, though now at least the drive spins up). It looks like the printer port is set right, though in the 755CD, you don't have the option in ThinkPad utilities to set it for EPP (this would be faster). And the Win95 generic driver is for ECP, which the Road Warrior folks weren't very comfortable with (they wanted standard or bi-di parallel port). So far, nothing has worked. I have used the parallel port in the past for Direct Connect to another computer. Questions: --Has anyone else gotten one of these carriers and made it work? (these are available under different names though they look identical..about 3" wide and 5" long) --Has anyone gotten enough power out of a TP mouse/key port to run one? --Is there an EPP option for setting up the parallel port on the 755CD in case I ever do get it working? --Are there any ThinkPad specific Win95 parallel port drivers? As I say, if this thing works, it seems ideal for doing reinstalls of Win95. By the way, the "empty" version costs $119, though it looks like I will need to buy a 5V power supply for additional $$. Thanks Mike Redmond