Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:04:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirk.vangulik@jrc.it> To: Jian Peng <jaypeng@crab.rutgers.edu> Cc: "freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: External hd for laptop Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980813110414.1890C-100000@elpc36.jrc.it> In-Reply-To: <35D24BB9.D1D78879@crab.rutgers.edu>
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I am quite happy using an SlimSCSI pcmcia card with either an external Jaz or a ZipPlus drive. Dw. On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Jian Peng wrote: > Hello all, > > I only got a 2.1GB internal harddrive, it will be nice if I can add a > external hd to my laptop (and it should work with FreeBSD). There are 3 > possible convertors I found online. pccard -> scsi; pccard -> IDE; > parallel -> scsi. I think the 3rd is not a good idea because of the poor > speed of parallel port. I am interested in buying a pccard to scsi > convertor and a external scsi harddrive. Have anyone done so? Any > suggestion is welcome! > My laptop is a Acer 392c, 2 Texas PCI cardbus controller. I know little > about IDE, my harddrive and CD-ROM all use IDE controller, could this be > a problem? I mean, is there IDE resource available for another HD? > Thanks. > > Jay Peng > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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