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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!de351
- From: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Trantor PAR<->SCSI interface & Amiga ???
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 23:33:19 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: de351@freenet3.carleton.ca (K. C. Lee)
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- References: <4j3thh$44p@zeus.datashopper.dk> <1891.6658T554T2525@wvlink.mpl.com>
- Reply-To: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
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-
- Gene Heskett (gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com) writes:
- >
- > 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?
-
- If you have done any real printer port interfacing work, you'll find out that
- the port has a limited bandwidth at about 700K/sec limited by the slow CIA
- chips. If you need to hook up anything a bit more complicated than a printer,
- your data rate drops to a bit above 100K/sec.
-
- > But it can't!!!! Why? Because *ALL* the so-called parallel port
- > stuffs are designed to be compatible with that crippled up "Printer"
-
- Your info sources are bit out of date. First of all the raw bandwidth of
- the printer port is quite a bit higher, more like 2 - 3 times that of the
- Amiga's. There are also EPP & ECP ports. EPP can be turned into a mini
- CPU bus. All the necessary handshaking signals are generated by hardware
- and with wait state support. You don't have to toggle handshake lines in
- software like the Amiga. The ECP port has 2 16-bytes FIFO queues with
- optional DMA support !!
-
- Check out the IEEE 1284 for the actual specs. There is a description of
- the operation and timing in National Semiconductor Super I/O PC87334
- datasheet in pdf format in the NS web site. Pp. 72-82, pp. 97-99 It is
- not the full specs, but the data sheets give you some idea of what's
- actually there.
-
- > /* Gene Heskett | I need help, please see my adv. */
-
- As for SCSI interface, I am currently working on the designs of an add-on
- for the A1200 and A4000 IDE port. It is in the paper stage right now.
-
- K. C. Lee
-