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On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Waldemar Puszkarz wrote: > considering this... Is there any way to get a similar thing for a TP 701? > Or perhaps this is not supported by these machines? > Thanks for your attention. At speeds above 4x, I'd avoid parallel port versions. I don't recall what the (practical )bandwidth of a EPP/ECP is, but I'm pretty sure it's around 4x speed. Beyond that, a faster drive won't help or will even perform worse. Unless you're only going to use Win95/NT or OS/2, AVOID the Panasonic 8x KXL-D750 unit. It seems to be a non-standard SCSI2 device. After trying to get it to work with Linux for several days, I asked for help and learned that David Hinds (author of the PCMCIA stuff for Linux) said the model was unlikely to ever work with Linux. The KXL-D740 4x drive and SCSI card works fine under Linux. The DXL-D745 is supposed to work too, but the included PCMCIA SCSI card has no Linux drivers. -- John H. Kim kim@mak.com