I just bought an external CDROM from CDW earlier this week.

I find the external CDROM (8X - Backpack from Microsolutions)
works just fine as a CDROM drive with Windows 95. It works
fastest if you set the printer port in the EPP mode.

The drivers come on 3 floppy disks, so it does not use up a
lot of space on a hard drive.

The built in sound card has problems though. It does not work with
some sounds, although the previous external sound card I had
attached to my notebook computer worked fine with all sounds.

I would recommend the external CDROM WITHOUT the sound
card and not buy the one with one built in. So far their tech
support has been non-responsive.


At 07:39 AM 4/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Fellow Listmembers,
>        I will be upgrading the workstations on our Novell 3.12 network
from Win
>3.1 to Win 95.  Most of these workstations do not have a CD-Rom drive.  The
>latest flyer from CDW shows a backpack external CD-Rom drive for parallel
>port.  This seems to be an answer to the upgrade process.  I am not quite
>sure about installing Win 95 on the Server as of yet because of space on
>the HD.  Could anyone advise the amount of space Win 95 would take up on
>the server (space is a consideration at this point on our server).  Any one
>have experience with using External CD-Rom drives?  Fast or slow?  Good or
>bad?
>        TIA for sharing your knowledge.
>Cherri Krowten
>
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