External burners from old internal IDE burners - would it work?

2004-10-11 Thread Dave NovaK
I had an idea. Instead of dropping the big bucks for an internal burner for my Wallstreet, maybe I could put an old IDE burner to use. My idea would be to get a cheapo USB enclosure and plug it in. I have an old 4x/4x/32x IDE drive (from an old PC) hanging around collecting dust. It would plug

Re: External burners from old internal IDE burners - would it work?

2004-10-11 Thread Ben Dyer
As long as the PC Card supports USB 2, you should be fine -- although you may need third-party CD burning software. The disadvantage of this approach is that you'll need mains power to use the external enclosure. Cheers, Ben On 12 Oct 2004, at 09:52, Dave NovaK wrote: I had an idea. Instead of

Re: External burners from old internal IDE burners - would it work?

2004-10-11 Thread Andrew Kershaw
I have an old 4x/4x/32x IDE drive (from an old PC) hanging around collecting dust. It would plug into my Wall Street via a PCMCIA USB card. As long as the PC Card supports USB 2, you should be fine -- although you may need third-party CD burning software. The disadvantage of this approach is