At 06:37 PM 4/20/97 +0800, you wrote:
>       Thus can someone enlitghten me on whether the external parallel
port unit
>also has the same problems as the internal IDE unit?

Well I have the internal version and can't be happier with it. Once you
learna few things you can't really go wrong. The few oddities are: need to
have disk in drive to be seen;  did not like being on same channel as my
fusjitsu hard disk; you definitely need to wait before popping disk out of
drive; use the mount/unmount utility.  Aside from that I have not had any
troubles with drive or disk. Love it more than my Zip drive even.
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