Re: portable CD ROM on thinkpad

[stu@opt-sci.Arizona.EDU (Stuart Biggar)]

Victor,

My experience with the IBM card under Warp is that it
does NOT hot plug - mine has to be in at boot (at least
with the driver I have).  (This is with an IBM 755CX w/
40 MB RAM / 810 MB HD / Warp 3.0 w/Fixpack 10 / current
TP stuff from the IBM www site).  It works fine with
a Toshiba 3401 external drive and with a HP1533A 4mm
DAT drive as long as a device (CD or tape) and the card
is plugged in (I use a port replicator with 2 PCMCIA slots)
at boot.

I would like to hear otherwise ...

Stu

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Stuart F. Biggar                    Phone:  (520) 621-8168
Remote Sensing Group                FAX:    (520) 621-8292
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> From owner-tp750@cs.utk.edu Thu Jan  4 11:21:37 1996
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:01:28 +0100
> To: tp750@cs.utk.edu
> From: kress@ctpsun.ciw.edu (Victor Kress)
> Subject: Re: portable CD ROM on thinkpad
> 
> >anyone have any luck with a portable CD ROM on a thinkpad running OS/2
> I made a similar inquiry earlier (though I was not as concerned about
> portability).  I got three responses.  Don Perley and Stuart Biggar
> suggested a SCSI PCMCIA card with a regular external drive.  I've been
> looking into this a bit, and many of the external drives are quite small
> (though they require 110V).  I'll probably go this route, though I havn't
> decided which drive I'll get.  Gator advertises WARP drivers in their ads,
> they include EPP and SCSI, and they look small.  Don Whiteside seems happy
> with the Panasonic, though he uses Windows. I didn't see any WARP drivers
> when I looked at the Panasonic drivers web page.
> 
> How do these SCSI cards deal with hot-plugging and hibernation?  Stuart
> Biggar seems to like his IBM SCSI card.  Any other bad/good experiences?
> 
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