On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:00:11 -0800 Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
