External SCSI cdroms

[amdskip]

Does anyone have any experience with these? Someone gave me two of them each a little different. The cdroms are scsi (one is an NEC) and they are in an enclosure with a power supply and cables which allows a SCSI ---- > parallel cable and into the parallel port on a computer. Any links?

I need to install windows 95 in a really old laptop too? Will this work?

 

[Smbu]

I'm pretty sure that connector is not for a parallel port, but a DB25 scsi connector. Like the ones older mac's used and the connectors on scsi zip drives.

 

[corkyg]

Sounds like the old NEC portable CD drive 3 (SCSI.) I did exactly what you want to do . . . used it with a old laptop (1995 vintage) that had no CD drive. No, it will not work in the parallel port. That is a SCSI connector (25 pin.) You will need a PCMCIA SCSI host adapter inthe laptop to make it work. I used an Adaptec 1460.

 

[Workin']

Hmm, I have an old NEC Multi-Spin 3x external CD-ROM that has an adapter cable to go from SCSI to parallel. The cable has a box in the middle of it with a pass-through parallel port. Is that what you have? There are DOS drivers on NEC's web site, it might take some digging to find them, however.

If that is what you have then you will be able to use it to install Windows on a laptop with no built-in CD drive. That's what I used mine for.