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- From: cpalmer@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Colin Palmer)
- Subject: Re: parallel hardrive w/A500?
- Message-ID: <DLxypH.M9y@actrix.gen.nz>
- Sender: news@actrix.gen.nz (News Administrator)
- Organization: Actrix - Internet Services
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:00:52 GMT
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- In article <4eg3u5$sdl@crcnis3.unl.edu>,
- karl suhr <ksuhr@unlinfo.unl.edu> wrote:
- > I've seen harddrives advertised for PC's which connect via the
- > parallel port. Are there any amiga drivers available for these, or is
- > it a matter of writing a proper mountlist, or is it totally
- > unfeasable? A zip drive connected to an a500 would be just, well,
- > zippy! (and would leave the expansion port free for other things)
-
- Most of these drives use a Parallel->SCSI adaptor, there's no reason for
- these not to work on the Amiga, all you need to do is write a driver :-)
-
- In my experience these drives are slow and take up heaps of CPU time
- (although some can use ECP which helps). You'd be much better off with a
- proper SCSI interface (which would free up your parallel port for other
- things).
-
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