parralell cdrw

[DIRTsquirt]

I have a back pack cdrw.. and the power cord is messed up.... does anyone know if those traditionaly are ide drives with a converter built into the back of tthe external case?
or if they are parralell through and through

 

[Workin']

Don't know about yours, but my old Hewlett-Packard parallel-port CDRW was an IDE drive with a separate converter in the back of the external case.

 

[joejoesan]

The Microsolution Backpack that I have has a Mitsumi IDE CDRW inside the case. I had removed it from the case and installed into the PC. Windows recognized it, so did the burning software. Works great in the PC even if it's several years old.

 

[zepper00]

Depends on how old your drive is. Early ones were SCSI with a parallel to SCSI converter. Most recent ones are IDE with converter.
.bh.