darren kenny wrote hi i ve got an normal NUMBER NUMBER cd rw ide drive that i d like to be able to use with a dell latitude cpx laptop that i ve got does anyone know any way enable this for example through the use of a special cable for the modular bay where cd rom or floppy drive is normally there is absolutely no way to use a conventional NUMBER NUMBER drive with a laptop directly however you can get an external firewire or usb cradle and attach it to the laptop like that and any NUMBER NUMBER drive will work in that case example URL regards vin irish linux users group ilug URL URL for un subscription information list maintainer listmaster URL 