From: Cottrell, Eric (ecottrell_at_doble.com)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 15:13:36 EDT
Hello,
I second that. Most of my computers have SCSI and I use an Adaptec 1460
card
for the laptops. Besides CD-ROM drives you can use real tape drives as
well.
If you look closely at the windows solutions for system recovery they seem
to still depend on DOS for saving off the important files. I suppose
windows
tends to get in the way. The fine print usually says you can not use a USB
or
Firewire drive for creating a recovery CD. The reason is no DOS drivers for
USB or Firewire. SCSI is old enough to have DOS drivers. I even remember
when you could only get SCSI CD-Rom Drives. Now it seems most stuff is IDE,
USB, or Firewire. I recently got an old Powermac where the only drive I/O
method is SCSI (CD-ROM, Hard Disk).
73 Eric ecottrell_at_doble.com WB1HBU
-----Original Message-----
From: Francis Auquier [mailto:francis.auquier_at_aqcis.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 2:45 AM
To: 'Edward Mendelson'; thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
Subject: RE: [TP 750] PCMCIA CD-ROM drive recommendation?
With my TP 750C, I used to use an external SCSI CD-ROM drive (8x) (by
LaCie/Electronique d2) attached to a PCMCIA SCSI controller card (under
Windows 95), for which I had drivers for DOS too.
The SCSI solution is a good investment since you can use your external drive
with any other system equipped with a SCSI controller card (BTW, I still use
this external SCSI CD-ROM drive on my current desktop), and SCSI gives
better performance than a parallel solution.
Francis
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