external cd-rw

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Ken Moffat:
> I have an old hp7200e external parallel-port cd-rw that I'd like to try. 
> Anyone have any info on this thing? I've tried to hook it up using some 
> instructions from the web, but it won't mount.

You probably need external IDE device support in your kernel. This
used to mean PARIDE ($SRC/Documentation/paride.txt). In fact, the
HP 7200 is specifically mentioned (not, necessarily, the e variation
thereof).

Kurt
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