From: John Kim (kim_at_mak.com)
Date: Wed Jun 11 1997 - 10:12:43 EDT
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.
Avoid it unless you never plan to leave Windows.
-- John H. Kim kim_at_mak.com
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