Can I have a SCSI CD Burner connected to my laptop??

[GreenGhost]

Hi, all,

I need to use a CD-R(W) with my laptop. Can I connect an external, SCSI Plextor drive thru my PCMCIA card?

What type of SCSI to PC-card connector are available?

Any recommendations (drive + SCSI/laptop adapter)???

I saw some 32-bit Card-bus in the Adaptec site. How do I know if my laptop has one of those or if it is the standard PCMCIA?
<ed: BTW, What are PCMCIA2, same thing?>

What about USB? Is the performance much worse than hooking up a SCSI (those I've seen are not as fast (20/4/4) plus the slower USB interface)??


Thanks for any comment

 

[dirkdaring]

Yes you can!

I have a yamaha SCSI-2 cd burner that I use on mine. How do I use it?

With a 'ENTREGA PORTGEAR USB TO SCSI CONVERTER' (buy.com).

It's very small, and is bus powered. You have to make SURE the one you get is bus powered. I went thru 3 before I got this one.

It works GREAT! For about 70 bucks.

You plug it in and you are ready to rock!

I highly suggest getting one. I take mine everywhere. Oh, you will also need to buy some converters if your burner is SCSI-2. Mine was SCSI-1. But speed has not been a problem, the USB bus can transfer much much much faster than the cdr can ever burn.

http://www.xircom.com/cda/page/0,1298,0-0-1_1-169,00.html

Dirk

 

[GreenGhost]

Thanks dirkdaring.

I liked the xircon adapter, although in their web site they don't list Plextors as &quot;compatible&quot;. I know it doesn't mean much, probably they just didn't tested their adapter with those. My notebook has NT-4, need to upgrade to W2000 to use USB, right?

So, is your CDRW SCSI-1 or SCSI-2? Which is DB25?


GreenGhost

 

[corkyg]

Yes, indeed! I have been burning CDs for over a year with my laptop using an Adaptec PCMCIA 1460 connected to (among other things) a Yamaha 4x2x6 CDRW SCSI External. Even do conversions from Analog music (records and tapes) to CDR. The laptop is also connected by Fast Etherlink LAN to my other two Athlon systems, and I have burned data across the net!