From: Bob Angell (aimsllc_at_ibm.net)
Date: Wed Jun 11 1997 - 10:39:37 EDT
John Kim wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Swartz, Charles wrote:
>
> > Think you'll find you can get the 8x Panasonic (KXL-783A) for under
> > $299. I bought one for my 560 from CDW and am very pleased. It has
> > some fairly good speakers (nice for presentations) and plug-and-played
> > perfectly.
>
> The Panasonic KXL-783A uses a non-standard SCSI-2 interface. It
> works fine under Windows, but I couldn't get it to work under
> Linux. I even tried it with the Adaptec PCMCIA SCSI card (said
> to be compatible with just about everything SCSI under the sun)
> and it didn't work. Furthermore, I talked with a couple folks
> about this and found that David Hinds (author of Linux's PCMCIA
> drivers) stated the drive is nonstandard and will probably never
> work under Linux.
I have had good luck with the Backpack CDROM. It plugs into
the parallel port and has a pass-thru for printing. I use it
under NT4, OS/2 and W95.
-Bob-
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