by I'm looking at buying a notebook computer, and have also been
looking at getting a CD-ROM drive to run with it. I was looking at some
of the parallel port models, but if I'm reading the CDROM-HOWTO
correctly, they won't work with Linux. Right?
So, while flipping through the March Computer Shopper, I noticed
a Panasonic SCSI portable CD-ROM, about the size of a Diskman (tm) CD
player, which comes with its own PCMCIA interface card. It sells for
~$300 from Midwest Micro, so it seems like a pretty good deal (PCMCIA
SCSI cards seem to be $200+). Does anyone know if this setup will work
with Linux?
I'm also interested in one of the CD-ROM distributions of Linux,
possibly the Slackware Professional one. From the ad I read, it seems
that it starts up under either DOS or Windows. If this is the case,
would it work with (a) a parallel-port drive, or (b) this Panasonic
drive, even if Linux doesn't directly support these drives? Or, could
Linux use these drives with UMSDOS?
Any information would be greatly appreciated about these
questions. E-mail replies are preferred, and I'll post a summary if
there's sufficient interest. Or hell, post if you want. (-:
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Dan Brown, KE6MKS
Don't Tread on Me