Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:00:17 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Works! - HP M820E & Ricoh MP8040SE 4x4x20 CD-RW under DOS w/ Full
> These CD-RW drives look VERY enticing! I see some on EBay currently at > about $42 with another day of bidding. I wonder what they're going for on > the street. Where did you get yours? www.ebay.com, naturally. Because I didn't want to wait, got mine at about $100, but could have waited for a good deal and got it around $80 as some winners did (see www.ebay.com completed items search). > For some reason I always thought that these L50 and L70s didn't have the > power to run a CD-RW drive... but that was because of sheer ignorance and > lack of research. Do they? They do. But the HP M820E/Ricoh MP8040SE run only off AC adapter. If you search ebay for the "PCMCIA CD-RW" you'll bring up lots of EXP PCMCIA slim CD-RW drives for about $170 that will work with the Libretto w/o external power supply, straight off the PCMCIA card so says the EXP tech. support rep. But I figured that I rarely needed to burn on the go, and instead went cheap with an older CD-RW instead. Rather use the $70 difference on a bazillion CD-Rs instead. If I did need to burn on the go, this EXP model (880) is the one I'd try first. > >From your note here, it wasn't clear to me whether or not you're sure if > these drives can be made to operate in DOS on the L50/L70s. If they can, > and the cost of these drives is anywhere around or below $75, I'd love to > get one myself. Probably. I've got mine running on the L100/110, so it will most likely run on the L50/70. Only thing I can think of is that it might need a different ss*.exe driver for the PCMCIA slot. Anyone have a L50/70 and can say what it needs to see the PCMCIA slot under DOS? (probably somewhere in the archives, too....) > On another note... I'm not familiar with what you say are, "PCMCIA card & > socket drivers, needed by the Librettos," though I recall you writing about > this in the past. Older notebooks can't see some PCMCIA cards w/o an additional PCMCIA slot software. In the past, CardSoft was what you got and installed. Not needed anymore in newer laptops where the HP/Ricoh CD-RW drivers can install themselves w/o the CS driver under DOS, but will need both on the older Librettos for this drive. > I know you must think I'm nuts (well... there's credible evidence to that > end)... but I've always been able to get this EXP Traveler 2020 CD-ROM going > in DOS by putting one simple line in the autoexec.bat file with the path to > the one driver provided, plus a line in config.sys with switches to > MSCDEX.EXE. Like I said, some some drives need both, some only need the drive driver. > Thinking about this, could it be that EXP and Toshiba worked together to > develop this drive. When I bought it, EXP was offering a hefty rebate to Or it's whatever they've released years ago as a Libretto CD-ROM drive for the Libreto in Japan and simply repackaged it when they brought it over here. As I recall, even the L50 or L70 web pages in Japanese showed a Libretto CD-ROM drive being sold by Toshiba as an accessory. Naturally, they'd thought things out before hand eg. re: recovery CDs. & drivers. > I'm a bit stumped on just what you were laying out for people with L50s and > L70s to attempt. But I'll read over your note again, and keep an eye on > this thread. If L50/L70 owners have the HP M820E/Ricoh MP8040SE CD-RW, try my #2 package under DOS and see if that's all you need to make it work in DOS. Otherwise, we'll have to find another CS PCMCIA slot driver. > If these drives can write CDs on a L70, and operate in DOS, and are not too > expensive... I definately want one! Works fine for me. Switch the PCMCIA card back to Cardbus mode when using it under Windows and it runs fine. Copys files at 20x rating fast enough off CDs for me, burns fine CD-R & CD-RW, and is light enough to carry about w/o much trouble. Only tick is that it needs older 1-4x CD-RW discs, mine can't burn/erase some newer 4x-10x discs. ===== adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
