From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Aug 12 19:13:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21535 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:13:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from crab.rutgers.edu (crab.rutgers.edu [165.230.211.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21530 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:13:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jaypeng@crab.rutgers.edu) Received: from crab.rutgers.edu (cmapt409b.rutgers.edu [165.230.171.20]) by crab.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00770 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:13:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35D24BB9.D1D78879@crab.rutgers.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:13:13 -0400 From: Jian Peng Organization: Rutgers Camden X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: External hd for laptop Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello all, I only got a 2.1GB internal harddrive, it will be nice if I can add a external hd to my laptop (and it should work with FreeBSD). There are 3 possible convertors I found online. pccard -> scsi; pccard -> IDE; parallel -> scsi. I think the 3rd is not a good idea because of the poor speed of parallel port. I am interested in buying a pccard to scsi convertor and a external scsi harddrive. Have anyone done so? Any suggestion is welcome! My laptop is a Acer 392c, 2 Texas PCI cardbus controller. I know little about IDE, my harddrive and CD-ROM all use IDE controller, could this be a problem? I mean, is there IDE resource available for another HD? Thanks. Jay Peng To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message