Hi
I still havent been able to get my spare combo drive to work properly in my ThinkPad R31.
It will burn CDs once into Ubuntu and XP but it will not boot a CD from it, so I have to keep popping back my original IBM CD-ROM drive.
My other alternative would be to keep the original CD-ROM drive in and get an external USB one.
Can anyone recommend a relative small/portable cdrw drive that will run on USB 1.1 (although I do have a USB 2 PCMCIA card but my wireless card takes up that slot).
If possible I would like it bus powered and it needs to work under Ubuntu 10 or will pretty much any drive work.
I dont do much burning, apart from the odd distro and a few music CDs.
Simon.
On 2 February 2011 22:16, Simon Royal mrsimonroyal@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I still havent been able to get my spare combo drive to work properly in my ThinkPad R31.
It will burn CDs once into Ubuntu and XP but it will not boot a CD from it, so I have to keep popping back my original IBM CD-ROM drive.
My other alternative would be to keep the original CD-ROM drive in and get an external USB one.
Can anyone recommend a relative small/portable cdrw drive that will run on USB 1.1 (although I do have a USB 2 PCMCIA card but my wireless card takes up that slot).
If possible I would like it bus powered and it needs to work under Ubuntu 10 or will pretty much any drive work.
I dont do much burning, apart from the odd distro and a few music CDs.
Simon. _______________________________________________ main@lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!
If you already have a drive that works for you, have you considered popping it into a bus powered case?
For IDE drive: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280584854342 For SATA Drive: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320602510993
Ben
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Ben Bewick viperfang@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 February 2011 22:16, Simon Royal mrsimonroyal@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I still havent been able to get my spare combo drive to work properly in my ThinkPad R31.
It will burn CDs once into Ubuntu and XP but it will not boot a CD from it, so I have to keep popping back my original IBM CD-ROM drive.
My other alternative would be to keep the original CD-ROM drive in and get an external USB one.
Can anyone recommend a relative small/portable cdrw drive that will run on USB 1.1 (although I do have a USB 2 PCMCIA card but my wireless card takes up that slot).
If possible I would like it bus powered and it needs to work under Ubuntu 10 or will pretty much any drive work.
I dont do much burning, apart from the odd distro and a few music CDs.
Simon. _______________________________________________ main@lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!
If you already have a drive that works for you, have you considered popping it into a bus powered case?
For IDE drive: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280584854342 For SATA Drive: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320602510993
Ben
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Hi Simon
I use a liteon etau108 its Cheap and small, usb powered and has been used on all sorts of REALLY dodgy old kit!! It cost a massive 20 something pounds - but worth every penny.
HTH
Regards
Rob
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