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- From: cpalmer@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Colin Palmer)
- Subject: Re: parallel hardrive w/A500?
- Message-ID: <DLztoH.Gq5@actrix.gen.nz>
- Sender: news@actrix.gen.nz (News Administrator)
- Organization: Actrix - Internet Services
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:07:29 GMT
- References: <4eg3u5$sdl@crcnis3.unl.edu> <DLxypH.M9y@actrix.gen.nz> <19960129.409B18.BC54@am067.du.pipex.com>
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- In article <19960129.409B18.BC54@am067.du.pipex.com>,
- Mathew Hendry <m.hendry@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
- > Colin Palmer (cpalmer@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
- > : 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.
-
- While the Amiga parallel port doesn't support ECP/EPP or whatever else,
- it is perfectly capable of handling I/O operations. A while ago someone
- claimed that a driver for parallel port tape drives would be fairly
- straight foward if the manufacturers would release the details of the
- interface's command set.
-
- > 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...
-
- Parallel port harddrives are pointless, except perhaps for portability
- reasons. However it would be nice to be able to use parallel port tape
- backups as SCSI ones are rather expensive.
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