From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Aug 13 02:05:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA29810 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 02:05:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA29798 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 02:05:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dirk.vangulik@jrc.it) Received: from elpc36.jrc.it (elpc36.jrc.it [139.191.71.36]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5688) with ESMTP id LAA29116; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:04:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dirkx@localhost) by elpc36.jrc.it (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA01957; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:04:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from dirkx) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:04:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik X-Sender: dirkx@elpc36.jrc.it To: Jian Peng cc: "freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: External hd for laptop In-Reply-To: <35D24BB9.D1D78879@crab.rutgers.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am quite happy using an SlimSCSI pcmcia card with either an external Jaz or a ZipPlus drive. Dw. On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Jian Peng wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message