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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
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- Subject: Re: Parellal Zip Drive with Amiga 1200
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 16:55:53
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- Antti J. Roppola (ajr@henric.nric.gov.au) wrote:
- : Mark Fussell <mjfussell@demon.co.uk> wrote:
- :
- : >I have just purchase an iomega zip drive for my PC and I was wondering
- : >how I can also use it with my Amiga. The drive is a PARELLAL version,
- : >so what do I need to do to install it also on the Amiga 1200?
- :
- : I'd take it back to the shop & swap it for a SCSI version. Reasoning:
- :
- : 1) I doubt anyone will ever bother writing a driver for the parallel
- : version while the SCSI version's available
-
- Writing such a driver is impossible. The Amiga's internal parallel port does
- not support all the needed data lines.
-
- : 2) My friend was evaluating the parallel version for work and the
- : performance isn't as good [1] as the SCSI version (rates escape me)
-
- That depends on the speed of the PC's parallel port. With a fast enough port,
- the parallel version can approach the speed of the SCSI version. Even if the
- Amiga parallel port _was_ compatible, it would be nowhere near fast enough to
- achieve this.
-
- -- Mat.
-