>> Anyone has any experience with these external cases? >I just ordered one a few days ago that should be here next Monday. Mine >in particular is a firewire one. I'll post my experiences on here. I'm >going to be using it with a Sony DVD-ROM drive as well as a Plextor >CD-RW, and possibly a 120GB hard drive.
Dear Alex. First of all, my excuses for bothering you! Do you have any results? I mean: does it work? :) Cannot wait to buy such a thing myself! >Also, in reply to your initial post, all USB 2.0 devices should be able >to run in USB 1.1 mode, however speed will still be a concern. If this >is going to be for use on your laptop, and you don't already have a >firewire or USB 2 port on it, I'd suggest looking at getting some of the >PCMCIA FireWire and/or USB2 boards. I just did a quick search on >pricewatch.com and they're showing USB 2.0 only cards for $20 US, and >USB 2.0/IEEE1394 (FireWire) combo boards for $59 US. That's what I'm actually going to do. The main problem is that I don't quite understand the chain I should build. The weakest part is PCMCIA. How should I configure such a card. For certainty, I found one on the Net: http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2PU2PCCARD 2-Port USB 2.0 High Speed CardBus PCMCIA Adapter, only $25.95 Could not find any notice about this kind of devices in PCMCIA docs. I made also a search on google as well as checked linux-usb - without any real success. As what sort of device should pcmcia_cs see such a PCMCIA->USB card? In other words: which device-driver modules are to be loaded? Any ideas? Where I could find docs/HOWTO's/info/etc? If I manage to get pcmcia part working, the usb one seems to be more or less clear. It should not be too different from Flash-card readers, right? Thanks in advance, Roman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
