Serial or parallel? You're having us on, right? Nobody uses serial or parallel any more. They're too slow, and weren't good for that sort of thing in the first place. That's what USB was invented for, and that machine has one USB slot and two PCMCIA slots, so use those. Now you have a lot of options. You can get USB external CD burners at just about any street corner, not to mention the ubiquitous ZIP drives. Get a PCMCIA USB expander if you're already using the one USB port, and you're up and running. I use one by Micro Innovations, marketed by Compaq. A USB 2 downward compatible: works well. Personally, if your internal is only 6GB, I'd recommend an external USB drive. I use an IOmega 120G. It has a USB 2 port (backward compliant to 1) and Firewire ports so you can use it when you upgrade to something a little more modern. That device even comes with hands free backup software. External HDs are really the most cost effective solution, MB per $. ------- julian. On Aug 10, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Jesse L. Purdom wrote:
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Hi there!
I was wondering if I could get some advice as to a backup solution for my laptop. I am running SuSE v8.0 Professional on a Dell Latitude CPi. What I am looking for is either a tape or CD drive that works well with SuSE v8.0 via either a serial or parallel port. This is my home system and I do not have the option of backing the data up to a network.
If anyone out there has any experience with this I would greatly appreciate their feedback.
Thank you.
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