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- From: gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com (Gene Heskett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: TR-1 Tape backup software for A4K?
- Date: 24 Mar 96 13:09:46 +0500
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- SW> I recently purchased a Reveal external TR-1 tape backup drive for
- SW> my Pentium, and I'm trying to find a backup program that will let
- SW> me use it on my Amiga 4000. It connects through the parallel
- SW> port but all the programs I can find only support SCSI. Will
- SW> Quarterback work? is there a share/freeware program?
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- SW> Thanks
-
- SW> Sam Worf
- SW> samworf@ix.netcom.com
-
- Sheesh, we have just got to make a FAQ out of this!
-
- NO parallel port "PC" devices can be run on the amiga. This is NOT
- due to any fault of the amiga, its the doofy port on the PC, and the
- workarounds to feed the PC back its data a nibble at a time on the
- STATUS lines of the PC printer port that get in the way. The Miggy
- port is in fact fully by-directional, the PC isn't.
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- That said, there is a program called PC2AM304.lha that has a working
- protocol using a "laplink" cable that might be a method of making
- that transition a bit less painfull. Since I have neither the PC, nor
- a tape drive for one of them thingies, I can't say as it will work,
- only that there is a possibility that the author of that might be
- able to tell you how to make it work, or do some minimal re-writing
- to make a port driver/receiver out of it that would work.
-
- I'm afraid that, as surmised on the PC, the recovery phase will be
- annoyingly slow. No program that slices data up into nibbles and
- sends it thru a 2 microsecond/nibble port is gonna be a speed demon,
- too much data shuffling going on IMO.
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