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John Kim wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Swartz, Charles wrote: > > > Think you'll find you can get the 8x Panasonic (KXL-783A) for under > > $299. I bought one for my 560 from CDW and am very pleased. It has > > some fairly good speakers (nice for presentations) and plug-and-played > > perfectly. > > The Panasonic KXL-783A uses a non-standard SCSI-2 interface. It > works fine under Windows, but I couldn't get it to work under > Linux. I even tried it with the Adaptec PCMCIA SCSI card (said > to be compatible with just about everything SCSI under the sun) > and it didn't work. Furthermore, I talked with a couple folks > about this and found that David Hinds (author of Linux's PCMCIA > drivers) stated the drive is nonstandard and will probably never > work under Linux. I have had good luck with the Backpack CDROM. It plugs into the parallel port and has a pass-thru for printing. I use it under NT4, OS/2 and W95. -Bob- -- Bob Angell, Principal - Sys. Engineer/Author/Consultant Applied Info & Mgnt Sys, 1238 Fenway Ave., SLC, UT 84102 v: 801-583-8544 e: aimsllc@ibm.net / bangell@cs.utah.edu -------------------------------------------------------- Applied Info & Mngmnt Systems has services as follows: Intra/Internet, Notes, Multiplatform data integration, Networking (TCPIP-SNA), Custom (AWK-PERL-C-Visualizer), Database dsgn/dev. (DB2-SQLserver-Oracle-etc.), Modeling OS's (Win95;Warp/NT Server; AIX / HP-UX / SunOS; OS/400) -------------------------------------------------------- "Had Mama Cass and Karen Carpenter shared that Ham sand- wich, they would both be with us today!" ---------------------------------------------------------------- YOUR JUNK MAIL WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!!, You have been warned! "By US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), a computer/modem/printer meets the definition of a telephone fax machine. By Sec.227(b) (1)(C), it is unlawful to send any unsolicited advertisement to such equipment. By Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a violation of the aforementioned Section is punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss, or $500, whichever is greater, for each violation." -----------------------------------------------------------------