24 Jul
2010
24 Jul
'10
6:27 p.m.
On 24 July 2010 22:24, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
In article <AANLkTikQDmDao1UfuhfPb4rEAqgPwNKA22FxLZyfwse4 at mail.gmail.com>,
? ?Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> ?writes:
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.
But I don't know - I'm just hypothesizing wildly.
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[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?