9 Aug
2000
9 Aug
'00
4:19 p.m.
At 05:42 PM 8/9/00 -0700, Zane wrote:
Is the LPV11 a bi-directional port? If you're
trying to talk to a Parellel
port Zip Drive I believe that will require a bi-directional port.
Not the old ones, they wrote 8 bits out and did "nybble-i/o" in for
non-bidirectional parallel ports. Makes them significantly slower on
transfer rate but their still faster than an RX50 :-)
--Chuck
Personally for my PDP-11/73 I'm using removable PC
SCSI Disk Sleds, this
allows me to use 3.5" SCSI HD's as removable media. I've got two drive bays
in the PDP-11 and another in my Linux box. Plus I've got a bunch of
identical SCSI HD's. The drive bay in my Linux box allows me to make disk
images of the PDP-11's SCSI HD's. Of course this solution requires you to
have a SCSI Adapter for your PDP-11.
And the SCSI adapters are hard to find. Seemed like it would be a good hack
if I could make old (read tossed out) ZIP drives into a PDP disk peripheral.