My experience trying to do this with a Win98SE laptop was not good. I have an external SCSI-based burner. I tried two different brands of SCSI PCMCIA cards. Both totally hung my machine. Both vendors had no useful suggestion about how to burp the card to life.
However, an off-brand IEEE 1394 (firewire) does work in my machine.
-Lon
Cotty wrote:
On 3/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: ..................................... How involved would it be for meto purchase a separate burner and install it myself or, alternatively, has anyone ever used an external cd-burner with a laptop, and if so, how did you find it? what problems, if any, did you find? what sort of power source would I need to run an external cd-burner or would it draw power from the laptop?
TIA, tan.
