Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:22:59PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:23:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:51:49PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> > > I haven't seen too many [OK, none] oldworld's with a parallel port.
> > > Perhaps some of the more esoteric/non-apple models have such a
> > > thing. I suppose you could go out and buy a PCI parallel port I/O
> > > card that might work....
> >
> > no Macintosh has a paralel port. i have however seen third party
> > paralel port cards that can be put in NuBus macs. don't know about
> > PCI.
>
> PCI I/O cards are pretty common. One brand I remember seeing is Lava.
> They definitely have parallel adapters. I'm 99% sure the pport cards
> were available for PCI. MacOS probably wouldn't want to have anything to do
> with them, as usual, but this shouldn't stop Linux from using them.
>
You wouldn't happen to know if they'll work under PPC with the endian
change, I'd immagine that driver writers wouldn't expect non-x86 computers
to use the card...
Mike
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