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From: laich@red1-si-20 (Che Hung Lai)
Subject: Re: Laptop and CD-ROM
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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 23:28:52 GMT
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goldman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Goldman) writes:
: A friend is thinking about connecting a CD-ROM drive to his laptop through the
: parallel port.  Does anyone have any experience, good or bad, with this type
: of setup?  Can anyone recommend drives to buy or avoid?  Thanx.
: 

1) its going to be slow.
2) you lost the parallel port. (in my case, its also the floppy port)
3) i am using always al1000 parallel2scsi connector, texel cdrom, dell notebook.
   its ok to use device driver that come with connector under dos. i have to
   slow down cpu clock to make it work under window3.1 enhanced mode. i have to
   slow down cpu clock all the time if i use the corel device drive.

regards.


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