QUOTE(spoon @ Jun 16 2006, 22:15)

Can you not put the plextor 2 in an external usb drive enclosure?, should work.
Actually, not really. One reason is that on principle I don't like the kind of hybrid USB/IDE device this creates. Feels like a bit of a compromise to a use a device in a way it wasn't specifically designed for.
More importantly, I read this blog on a Japanese website of someone who had tried this. I can't remember the URL, but I do still have the machine translation of his post (below).
Basically, it seems that Plextor Premium2 drives go
way beyond normal IDE CD-ROM drives' specifications, in that some of the more advanced features of the drive can't be accessed over the IDE caddy. In fact, it sounds like they caused him some
major problems:
Machine translation follows (emphasis mine):
QUOTE
May 16, 2006
PlexWriter Premium2 that 2
When pricesettleswith the article of the other day, that you buy while
saying, it is the case that you buy preceding sale unintentionally but.
But in being troubled, using the IDE-USB bridge, when to external it
converts, it cannot use all functions. After all, it is painful not to
be able to use most essential AudioMaster. Even useless report being
issued even with ?? of 2, from the ? it seems that is not relationship
in type of IDE-USB bridge. However several IDE-USB bridges inside you
tried in reality, it was total destruction. Strange command having
issued physically, however it is from or the correspondence of
PlextorToolsPro is sweet simply or the ? which are useless. Temporarily,
when demand it puts out to support, "it conveys story to the PTP
development department", that because word it was the answer which is
said, just a little perhaps you can expect.
Because it is with, while as expected waiting for correspondence, the
fact that it lays idle it is wasted, because there is no manner, it made
build in. When it makes build in, it becomes dirty by any means with the
dust of inhalation because and, there is also something related to power
source, but hateful what - it is not.
So, as for direct sale of ??? the ? which is preceding sale it is, as
for generality sale as been preceding sale truly with ahead two months,
to go, it was and with bought and perhaps it was correct answer. Because
as for worldly desires there is no price, don't you think?
I particularly like the pearl of wisdom at the end.

Newsflash: Today I discovered
Ultradrives.com have (factory refurbished and rather pricey) Premium USB (
not Premium2) drives available! One is on its way to my house...

Did anyone else read that post on another forum (sorry no URL) of the German magazine review that said the Premium2 sucks at DAE?