I use a similar device for purely external full image backup and it is slow but functional. Faster than floppy but slower than IDE Zip drive. At 12:18 AM 6/5/99 , Mark Rode wrote: >>Tiger Direct sells gadgets to let you mount IDE drives and CD ROMs in external >>cases. They connect to the parallel port. I'm sure there's a performance >hit, > >Attached to a parallel port a IDE hard drive would take an enormous >performance hit ! >The only use for this would be to temporarily transfer files....at a very >slow rate. > <snip> >>but it would look professional. For the drive, the part number is >V46-1006 for >>the drive or V46-1012. $74.95 each. > > PCBUILD only works if you contribute. Send your messages > to be posted to: [log in to unmask] Doug Simmons PCBUILD's List Owner's: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>