[SunRescue] A new laptop for Reagen...

[Ken Hansen]

The HP 800 series laptops have real (AMD?) SCSI built-in.
Really.

It has an unusual connector, but with the cable you get an HD50
connector on the far end (for all your favorite devices)...

The laptop was made to have SCSI CD-ROm drive - HP sold a
re-badged Panasonic drive (it also runs on batteries or AC
adapter).

I know, I have two of these (well, one - I had to give one to my
mother in law when my wife saw the two next to each other, and,
well, how can I need two of the *same* laptops? ;^)

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org
[mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Mike Hebel
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 1:20 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [SunRescue] A new laptop for Reagen...


>>See, now I want to check my HP Omnibook to see which it is.
It's a
>>P166MMX with the 512K cache.  I want to know if it has SCSI =)

The ad said a Panasonic SCSI drive and those often came with
PCMCIA SCSI
cards so there's probably not an actual port in the notebook.
That's rare
and often on "odd" models - for instance my TI Travelmate 4000M
has SCSI
built in - AHA1510 but hey it's SCSI.

I've played with the 4X PCMCIA Panasonic SCSI on an IBM TP
before and it was
_very_ solid.  It even had the ability to fully run off of AA
batteries for
quite some time.  Since the notebook was old I even put Velcro
on the bottom
of the drive and stuck it to the back of the screen.  I had to
close the
notebook a little to change CDs but it worked like a charm!

BTW - The PCMCIA is a TRUE SCSI card.  I had a DAT drive and a 7
CD changer
(NEC) hooked to it at one time and all worked as expected.  The
card even
worked in NT.
Working in 'nix...well I didn't get to try that at the time.

Mike Hebel

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