24 Jul
2010
24 Jul
'10
9:53 p.m.
On 7/24/10 9:27 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
I have no idea on technical grounds, but inasmuch as there are, or
were, USB<=>SCSI adaptors, I think it's /technically/ possible in
terms of electronic capabilities. What I suspect on no particular
evidence is that software-wise it probably isn't, 'cos I am /guessing/
that a USB device can't present itself as a port on 0x378 on IRQ 7
etc.
You are correct, but that's not how USB<->SCSI interfaces are built.
USB's mass storage device class acts as a transport mechanism for the
SCSI command set.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
[USB dongles] work *remarkably* well with even old
printers [...]
but not any other parallel-port device, AFAIK.
But there's nothing inherent in the USB spec that prevents this as a
possibility, its simply the kind of USB dongle that people have built
to date, right?