IDE Internal CD drive --> enclosure(parallel) External Drive question!

[Edgy]

Okay, got a laptop w/o CD support (old toshiba) & got a old toshiba internal ide (8x CD drive) installed in an enclosure (parallel connection).

The laptop is running with win 95 (not sure which version).

The question is : How to obtain CD drivers for parallel connection so that OS will recognize the drive?

Are there such "generic" drivers for external cd drive via parallel connection for win 9x OS?

Been searching but couldn't find any such drivers.... At this point if there are no easy solutions, I guess I could learn to write such a driver (anyone know where I can get some tutorials on how to do this?)

Thx.

 

[AndyHui]

The external parallel enclosure should come with drivers.....or at least they did when I last used one. See if you can find some on the enclosure manufacturer's website.

 

[Edgy]

Using internal Hi-Val 16x max cd rom with a very cheap generic enclosure bought at Fry's years ago and no driver came with the enclosure & no manufacturer info outside/inside, lost the box long time ago.

Wanted to get this thing working w/ win 95 & 98se.

Any ideas?

Thx.

 

[mattyrug]

There must be somewhere. I had an old Magnavox Externel CD Player/1x CD-Rom Drive. It hooked up to the Parallel Port and worked fine. It even had CD-Player Software and Drivers for Win 3.1 and Win95. I do remember in Win95 you had to load it the same way you do a regular CD-Rom Drive (Real Mode) but just came with it's own driver to emulate a SCSI Port Via Parallel/ECP port.
So yes, it can be done, but what kind of driver you'd use? I really don't know. Someone else must know, they make those HD enclosures that work via a parallel port also.