Re: external cd-rom drives
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:00:11 -0800 Heather
<star@betelgeuse.starshine.org> writes:
>I have heard that Backpacks (which are parallel based) are also well
>supported by Linux, though I haven't tried them. I would think that a
>
>parallel CD would be rather slow compared to a CardBus/IDE linkage.
>On the other hand, you can use them on any system, even desktops and
>weird laptops whose cardbus isn't supported. Since you didn't say
>what kind of laptop, or whether you need to support more than one, I
>figured that was worth mentioning.
Would this include a Hitachi CDR-1700S? A local shop has one of these
used
somewhat cheap and I was hoping I could use this with my Epson ActionNote
660c which has no CD-ROM. I have not purcased this drive yet and have
failed to
find any info or drivers related to it. I would like to do a Linux only
install but have
no way of installing packages after the base install.
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