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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: parallel hardrive w/A500?
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 96 13:21:03
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- Colin Palmer (cpalmer@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
- : 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 :-)
-
- No. A lot af these drives _can't_ work on a standard Amiga because the Amiga's
- parallel port doesn't support all the hardware functions needed. This is why
- you won't see, for example, an Amiga driver for the parallel port version of
- the Zip drive. Unless, that is, you connect it to some third party parallel
- port hardware which supports the required functions.
-
- Quite why you'd want to connect a hard drive to a parallel port when SCSI
- is so much faster, and pretty cheap, is a mystery to me, but anyway...
-
- -- Mat.
-