From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 01 1999 - 22:53:35 EST
> I have an IBM TP 600 notebook. I also have an unused 5GB 3/4 inch
> high hard drive, which I'd like to connect to my notebook. My 600
> has a port for an external diskette (floppy) or CDROM drive.
>
> How fast is this port? I'm hoping that it might be faster than
> the USB port or using a PC Card.
I think it is parallel port speed, which is slower than PC card.
> I'm also hoping that this would
> be more OS-independent, since I mostly use Linux.
You can buy a PC-card IDE drive case for around $100; mine is recognized instantly
by recent builds of Linux with the PCMCIA package, though so far I haven't figured out if I can make it bootable in Linux on my 560.
- David R.
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