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  Several Amiga vendors have talked me out of the GVP (GVPM) SCSI interface
for the A1200/"A1230 Turbo+ Series II" board.  They say the A1291 SCSI
interface (which attaches to the 1230 board in the 1200) never worked right
and that GVPM (or whomever owns GVP now) never fixed it.  Is this true?

 Since my 1200 expansion bay is already full, how can I add a SCSI interface
(assuming the claims about the A1291 are accurate)?
 
I'm reluctant to try the Data Flyer SCSI+ on an A1200, due to:

 A friend got a Zorro SCSI card from Expansion Systems for his 4000 (I think
called the Data Flyer 4000SX SCSI Zorro) so he could use his SyQuest 88
drive.  He had numerous reliability problems (R/W errors) and agonizingly
slow bootups.  Expansion Systems tech support never returned his calls. 
When he finally did track them down, they passed the buck and told him to
deal with SyQuest, which was inappropriate, and of no help anyway.  Again
Expansion Systems refused to return his calls.  I tried to help, to no
avail.  Their manual was the worst i'd ever seen. 
 
I'm thinking about the Squirrel, but might have that PCMCIA port already
taken by a PCMCIA faxmodem. 

Suffice it to say, I have no idea what other SCSI solutions are good
for an expanded 1200.

Regards,
Pat Fish


PS  Remember back in the early Amiga days when many hard drives used the
Amiga Parallel port?  Some of those (C. Ltd.?) were SCSI drives I think.  Is
there any reason why that same driver software could not be used to run a
SCSI drive (like a Zip drive) via the parallel port, assuming one had the
correct cable (ie. either ones like from the early C. Ltd. parallel drives
or even the "Parallel to SCSI" cables offered by Iomega and others)?