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- From: gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com (Gene Heskett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Trantor PAR<->SCSI interface & Amiga ???
- Date: 25 Mar 96 09:14:50 +0500
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- CR> I am looking for a driver, that will let me attach and use a
- CR> CD-ROM drive, via a Trantor PAR<->SCSI cable. (Ie. it let's you
- CR> use your parallel port as a SCSI port).
- CR>
- CR> Do you know of such a driver ???
- CR>
- CR> Is the Amiga 1200 capable of using such a device, can the PAR:
- CR> port communicate in that way ???
-
- CR> TIA - Christian
-
- Here we go again! How many times do we have to explain that the Amiga
- parallel port is a truely bi-directional port, thru which it ought to
- be able to do ALL these things?
-
- But it can't!!!! Why? Because *ALL* the so-called parallel port
- stuffs are designed to be compatible with that crippled up "Printer"
- port the pclones have. Its not bi-directional unless you convert the
- data being fed *into* it into 4 bit (nibble) sized pieces and put it
- on the "printer" port status lines. Software in the *PC* then
- re-assembles it into usable data. As you can well imagine, the data
- rate goes right in the toilet when doing such things.
-
- The Amiga requires no such data contortions. But, because the
- hardware/software to do so is already built into the external device
- you're thinking should work, it won't.
-
- Having said that, now I say: go check out "PC2AM304.LZH" (its on
- aminet) and get into contact with the author to see if this could be
- cobbled up to actually work. It looks like a promising approach, but
- I have neither the tape drive nor the pclone to test it on, and
- hopefully will never have to stoop to such an altitude as to actually
- allow a pclone on my premises for other than "see if I can fix it"
- purposes.
-
- Cheers Christian, Gene
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