>I would think CDROm Toolkit scans ALL buses when looking for CDs to
>mount. Drive Setup sees the PCMCIA as a bus if a IDE interface is
>inserted (at least with hard drives and drive enclosures + card). Can
>someone give this a try?
>Jay is correct. Drive Setup will see any ATA/IDE PC Card as a "potential"
>hard drive. I'm not sure if this is the same for the CD-ROM drive but
>I've formatted both PC Card HDs and an external PC Card interface external
>drive (the original HD from the 2400). The 2400 also recognizes that the
>device is a storage device and I have install Apple drivers on the PC
>Card. So, at least part of the OS will recognize an ATA/IDE device in the
>PC Card slots.
That's a very good sign. As long as the bus is visible, a recent version of
the Apple CD driver should probably do the job for the Sony CD drive as
well. The one good thing about ATA is that it's pretty darn simple, so
driver support for one bus or device generally works for all of them
(whether on a Mac or PC) - meaning that if one CardATA bus works, they all
probably will. I would note that I've seen occasional weirdness using the
Apple driver for external SCSI drives (spurious error when unmounting,
drive doesn't wake from sleep properly and has to be power-cycled), but
those won't necessarily affect the ATA half.
Recognising a card as a storage device (or any other PC card as any type of
device) and putting up the proper icon isn't necessarily enough on its own,
because it's just a matter of reading a small ID (a "tuple") from the card
without actually asking it to doing anything. Being able to scan it with
Drive Setup (et al) is good news, though.
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