On Apr 05, Seth Golub wrote: > On a related note, does anyone know how I could use an extra IDE drive > with my laptop? I know I could get a SCSI PCMCIA card, an enclosure, > and a drive, but big SCSI drives (~25GB) are expensive. Is there a > way to hook up to an IDE drive outside the case? I'd rather not get > an entire desktop machine just to use it as a fileserver.
I know there are such things as PCMCIA IDE adapters (or at least the specs for them, since CompactFlash cards act like PCMCIA IDE devices when you put them in the $10 CF-PCMCIA adapter). I don't know how well they work, though. I'd imagine a lot of the "external CD-ROM/DVD" devices for laptops are IDE-based, though. Chris -- ============================================================================= | Chris Lawrence | Visit my home page! | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ | | | | | Grad Student, Pol. Sci. | Are you tired of politics as usual? | | University of Mississippi | http://www.lp.org/ | =============================================================================
