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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Parellal Zip Drive with Amiga 1200
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 18:52:34
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- Daniel L. Taylor (pdtaylor@primenet.com) wrote:
- : m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) writes:
- :
- : >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.
- :
- : Amiga's had parallel-attached drives (A1000s with parallel to SCSI adapters)
- : before PCs had bi-directional ports.
-
- And of course, these adaptors only use the data lines which the Amiga's
- parallel port supports.
-
- : It is NOT impossible, just unlikely,
- : mostly because getting the information from the drive manufacturers is so
- : %$#%$# hard.
-
- How do you intend to access data lines which just _aren't connected to
- anything_ on the Amiga parallel port? By building a hardware adaptor connected
- to another port? Yucky, messy, wasteful, and very difficult to implement.
-
- "Use the SCSI version - you know it makes sense" ;)
-
- -- Mat.
-