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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Trantor PAR<->SCSI interface & Amiga ???
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 03:47:32 GMT
- Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
- Message-ID: <4j7pck$hs0@news2.delphi.com>
- References: <4j3thh$44p@zeus.datashopper.dk>
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- In article <4j3thh$44p@zeus.datashopper.dk>,
- croig@zeus.datashopper.dk (Christian Roig) wrote:
- >I am looking for a driver, that will let me attach and use a CD-ROM drive,
- >via a Trantor PAR<->SCSI cable. (Ie. it let's you use your parallel port
- >as a SCSI port).
- >
- >Do you know of such a driver ???
- >
- >Is the Amiga 1200 capable of using such a device, can the PAR: port
- >communicate in that way ???
-
- In a word, no.
-
- In more detail note that this hack was first done on the Amiga 1000s quite a
- long time ago by Microbotics with their MAS-Drive 20 interface. It gave new
- definitions to the word "slow". So it is theoretically possible to support the
- Trantor "thing" on the Amiga line. I see no money in doing so. Nor has the
- surviving owner of Microbotics seen enough profit to revive the MAS-20
- interface. (It has some nice features Trantor does not, I believe. For example
- the printer port still worked as a printer port as well as a SCSI device driver
- port, although not simultaneously.)
-
- >TIA - Christian
- >
- >.... Me? FAT? No, just horizontially disproportionate...
- >___ Offline Orbit v0.80a (Unregistered Evaluation Copy)
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- {^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
- jdow@bix.com, jdow@delphi.com, jdow@earthlink.net
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