Brian Preston wrote:
>
>
> Hello, I was wondering if anyone out there can supply me with some name,
> and maybe links, to a company/companies that sell external hard drive
> enclosures, that run off of the parport. And how to get it running in
> Linux. Basically I have an old, 210 meg laptop drive and would like to
> create an external parport backpack hard drive.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian, (dmaul683)
>
Tiger-direct (www.tigerdirect.com) sells Part II Research boxes
that can convert an ATAPI device (HDD, CD, CDRW, Zip, LS-120) to
parallel port (I believe their part number for this box is
M128-1010). They also sell boxes for ATAPI to USB. The price range
is $50 - $60. The box uses the Onstrean chip- I think the Linux
driver module you need is on26.o (this currently works only with
EPP ports, I believe). I have one of these and use it with an
ATAPI CDRW- its works well once you get the PP set to the proper
mode and speed.
Kevin
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