27 Apr
2014
27 Apr
'14
7:49 a.m.
On 04/27/2014 03:55 AM, drlegendre . wrote:
I think I still have a Trantor T-348 Mini-SCSI kicking
around here. They
work with DOS machines, will let you work with SCSI discs connected via the
parallel port. I used mine to load Mac stuff onto external discs from Linux
machines, back in the 90s.
Interesting. Right before I left the UK and moved to the US, I was hacking
together a parallel port-based SCSI adapter; the main reason for doing it
that way being that I also wanted to support SASI devices too, so doing all
the signal twiddling in software was the best approach (and it wasn't as
though throughput was a priority!)
My first PC SCSI card was actually the CDROM interface on a Pro
AudioSpectrum sound card - no DMA support, but it was good enough for
accessing drives via Linux.
cheers
Jules