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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: Fri, 1 Mar 96 01:50:22
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- S. Mortimer (ssumorti) wrote:
- ^^^^^^^^
- Fix your From: line BTW...
-
- : >: 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.
- :
- :
- : Err, whaa?? Why not?
- :
- : I have not got the hardware manual on me, but are you sure of this?
-
- Yes.
-
- From the hardware reference manual, second edition, page 302:
-
- "The implementation is similar to Centronics, but the pin assignment and drive
- characteristics vary significantly from that specification..."
-
- I only have the Amiga manual to hand at the moment, so cannot compare with a
- full pinout to determine which pins are missing, but it's true, believe me ;)
-
- -- Mat.
-