I've communicated with the manufacturers of the cdrom backpack. They insist that the necessary drivers are included in Microsoft Windows systems. That the backpack does not have proprietary drivers. That they have no drivers to offer. At first the lappy would not recognize the cdrom drive. Got...
I, now, understand what you mean. I have finally been able to do the same thing with the same-backpack cdrom. I simply needed to install the correct drivers. I did so with cdblazer.exe. My problem now is with the audio drive-ESS ES1688 Plug and Play AudioDrive is exclamation marked in device...
Yes, I have noticed the similarities. I once had an external drive attached to a system (an old laptop). When the external died, I opened the case and discovered that the external drive looks much like an internal, and that the drive itself was connected to a card which formed the parallel port...