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- Subject: Re: Parallel To SCSI Interface For PC
- Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:15:08 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan2.003109.25202@kd4dts.dixie.com> <C0AFGu.H3K@mccc.edu>
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- pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan2.003109.25202@kd4dts.dixie.com> jcw@kd4dts.dixie.com (John C. Wren) writes:
- >=Does anyone out here in netland know of a device that would let me connect
- >=my laptop (with no expansion slots, but with a parallel port) to the SCSI
- >=chain on my '486 so that I can treat the 120mb drive on the laptop as a
- >=disk drive on the '486?
- >=
- >=What I want to accomplish is being able to backup the laptop drive to the
- >=tape system on my '486. It would also be useful for installing software
- >=from the CD ROM drive on the '486 onto the laptop.
- >=
- >=Any information would be appreciated.
-
- >Don't know if this will work, but you might contact the folks at
- >Trantor. They have a parallel-to-SCSI adaptor that works quite well.
- > Trantor Systems, Ltd.
- > 5415 Randall Place
- > Fremont CA 94538-3151
-
- This will give the laptop access to the scsi bus; it will
- be able to see the devices in the 486 machine. The 486 system
- will not see the disk in the laptop. The laptop should be able
- to write the tape drive except for one problem.
-
- Most scsi controllers have their scsi address set to 7. Since
- all scsi addresses must be unique there will be a conflict with
- the scsi address of the 486 machine. If you can solve this
- problem it should work.
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- >>>>>>>>>>>> Peter Reilley ..... pvr@wiis.wang.com ..... KA1LAT <<<<<<<<<<<<<
- Well, that about says it.
-