Re: PC Card SCSI driver?

[Donna Hood Pointer]

I think I was planning to buy one of these, or something similar, a 
long while ago, but I needed to get FWB CD Toolkit (I think that's 
what it was called) to be able to read and work with it.
On Wednesday, April 14, 2004, at 03:23 PM, PowerBooks wrote:

 PC Card SCSI driver?
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Hi, Listers!

I recently bought a Panasonic KXL-D340 external CD-ROM player. It 
included
a PC Card adapter, that appears on the desktop as a SCSI Card. 
However, the
CD-ROM it is not recognized. I suppose it needs a driver. I googled 
it but
can find only Windoze drivers.
Anyone knows if there is a Mac driver that recognizes a PC Card SCSI 
Adapter?
And by the way: I'm using the CD-ROM with a PowerBook SCSI to 
mini-scsi
(windoze laptop scsi). Anyone knows where I can get 2 or 3 of this 
cables?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Best regards.
Hugo Diaz
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Re: PC Card SCSI driver?

[macnifico]

>IIRC, no Mac driver was released for this PC card, as most of the PBs
>extant when this product was released had builtin SCSI ports.

My main interest in using the SCSI PC Card is that it permits the CD_ROM
drive to draw its power from the computer. It is one less power adapter to
carry.


>The disadvantage is it requires a Mac (DB-25 or HD-30) to SCSI-2 cable,
>or a SCSI-1 to SCSI-2 adapter plus the usual Mac to SCSI-1 cable, none of
>which is/are included in the kit. I elected to use a SCSI-1 to SCSI-2
>adapter plus my usual DT/MT (DB-25) or PB (HD-30) cable.

I have a SCSI-2 to HD-30 cable, what I call a Windows laptop to Apple
PowerBook cable. I'm in need of two more of this cables, but I do not know
the right name for the Widows side. I have read it is called mini-scsi,
laptop SCSI, SCSI-2, and high density SCSI.
Know of a source for this cables, or adapters to connect it to a PowerBook?

Best regards.
Hugo Diaz
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Re: PC Card SCSI driver?

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>I recently bought a Panasonic KXL-D340 external CD-ROM player. It included
>a PC Card adapter, that appears on the desktop as a SCSI Card. However, the
>CD-ROM it is not recognized. I suppose it needs a driver. I googled it but
>can find only Windoze drivers.
>Anyone knows if there is a Mac driver that recognizes a PC Card SCSI Adapter?

IIRC, no Mac driver was released for this PC card, as most of the PBs 
extant when this product was released had builtin SCSI ports.

I believe the design of the card was Adaptec's, and Panasonic 
manufactured the card under license.

If a Mac driver was ever released for this card, it would most likely 
come from Adaptec, not from Panasonic.

It is possible to support this drive through the PB or DT/MT SCSI port 
through the usual mods to Apple's CD or CD/DVD driver.

I've used this drive on machines from the PB 500 to the G3 MT.

The advantages include builtin stereo speakers (with an included cable to 
the PB/DT/MT itself) and battery power.

The disadvantage is it requires a Mac (DB-25 or HD-30) to SCSI-2 cable, 
or a SCSI-1 to SCSI-2 adapter plus the usual Mac to SCSI-1 cable, none of 
which is/are included in the kit. I elected to use a SCSI-1 to SCSI-2 
adapter plus my usual DT/MT (DB-25) or PB (HD-30) cable.

As a portable solution, the Panasonic drive is light-years ahead of the 
terrible "Rio" (NEC ?) drive.

Once source of a patch is:

http://www.pure-mac.com/hard.html#cdpatch

However, there are several others.

My own favorite is:

http://www.graphixmad.plus.com/mac_troubleshooter/cdrom_problems.html

However, this requires use of ResEdit.

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