Jim Alexander wrote:

> I have a Toshiba notebook for which I have a portable CD-Rom drive which
> uses an IDE interface on a PCMCIA card.  It is used as a hot device under
> Windows 95.   I realize that this is because it is PCMCIA, but it is IDE,
> so it does qualify under the classification of an IDE device ...

Sorry Jim, it does not.  The discussion point is what interface the drive
presents to the computer system.  Your CDROM may use IDE, but to the
system it's PCMCIA.

This is in a way exactly what SCSI does to a drive.  Most SCSI drives
these days (and possibly before) are IDE equivalents with a SCSI frontend.

You get all the benefits of SCSI and the lower cost of mass production
that comes from all the IDE drives made for Win95 PC's.

YMMV.....

Vince (flame suited) Martyn


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