SCSI or ethernet via parallel port ?
Thad P Floryan
thad at cup.portal.com
Fri Jan 25 23:32:12 AEST 1991
merce at iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) in <1991Jan25.035120.11117 at iguana.uucp> writes:
there exist on the market a number of "thingy"'s that attach to the
parallel port.
[...]
but there are newer gizmos which can, with drivers under MS-DOS, adapt
the port into a SCSI controller or an ethernet NIC.
[...]
on the unix-pc/CT miniframe, you can write loadable device drivers.
could a driver be implemented to use one of these devices?
Nope. The 3B1/UNIXPC's parallel port is NOT a programmable I/O device with
data-direction registers; it is a printer port, period.
Thad Floryan [ thad at cup.portal.com ]
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