Jan Vicherek (honza@ied.com)
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:09:30 -0400 (EDT)
hi Grant,
thank you for your detailed reply. Yes, it probably is an old thing, I
guess 4-7 years old (all the parts are "sm" [Surface Mounted]).
Is there somewhere a "software probe" for Linux which could tell me
whether that device is SPP or EPP or what ? Is there somewhere a URL
that would tell me what is "SPP" and "EPP" ?
I don't have any software for it. I emailed info@dotop.com.tw, but got
no answer (yet).
Thanx a bunch,
Jan
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 grant@torque.net wrote:
> > I found this piece of HW in my basement:
> >
> > "Magic Convertor II Plus" from Dotop Co., Ltd
>
> Never heard of it ;-) From the description, however, I'd guess that it
> dates from 1990 or so ...
>
> > I just bought Phillips CDD-2000 CD-R drive and so I thought I could make
> > them work somehow together.
>
> Unless the device can do EPP, it's a losing proposition.
>
> > This "Magic Convertor II Plus" is a small 2"x4" box, one side plugs into
> > parallel port and the other side has two connectors; one for SCSI and one
> > for Printer (again parallel port). It requires external 5V DC power. It
>
> There were a few devices like this from manufacturers like NEC, HP and Iomega.
> The original PPA (for Bernoulli drives) looked like that.
>
> > "NCR 53C80
>
> Many of these things were, in fact, based on the 5380.
>
> > other than that there is about 25 capacitors, 15 resistors, a couple of
> > transistors, a couple of diods, one inductor, and three 8-pin ?SCSI
> > terminators? or something like that.
>
> The rest of the adapter seems to have been built from standard off-the-shelf
> components.
>
> If the device is as old as it seems (most of these things have been based
> on single ASICs for at least 4 or 5 years now) it almost certainly cannot
> do EPP. In that case, you would not be able to burn CDs on your CDD-2000.
>
> If you still have the DOS drivers for it, and are interested in doing
> some experimentation, it may be possible to get it working in SPP and PS/2
> mode. If you don't have the DOS drivers, your only hope is that somebody
> else here might recognise it as something else relabelled.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Grant R. Guenther grant@torque.net
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>
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