[ale] Kenwood TrueX CD-ROM drives

[Jeff Hubbs]

The box had a sticker on it that said ATAPI, which gave me a warm fuzzy
until that "driver" discussion on the Web site took it away.

I'm considering building a file server that uses a couple of these drives
for copying CBT CDs to disk.  It doesn't matter to me all that much if the
CD-ROM drives are IDE; they're occasional-use and I'd might as well use the
mobo's IDE controllers for something.  I'd care more if they were hard
drives.  

-----Original Message-----
 From: Christopher S. Adams [mailto:toiletduk at penguinpowered.com]
Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 5:50 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Kenwood TrueX CD-ROM drives


i doubt that the drive is wintendo-only
i'd suggest calling kenwood and asking if the eide drive is a standard atapi
drive

Chris

----- Original Message -----
 From: Jeff Hubbs <Jhubbs at NIIT.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 4:28 PM
Subject: [ale] Kenwood TrueX CD-ROM drives


> Can anyone speak to the usability of these CD-ROM drives under Linux?  The
> fastest one is a 72x and it's EIDE.  There is some mention of drivers that
> spooks me into thinking that these might be Windows-only critters.  The
box
> I saw at CompUSA today said (I think) it required Win98 or Win95 OSR2.
>
> There is also mention of a SCSI version of a slower model.  Might it be
> immune to any Windows-specificity inherent in the EIDE version?
>
> http://www.kenwoodtech.com/products.html for more info.
>
> - Jeff