🚀 go-pugleaf

	I've suspected this for some time, when I was playing with a 
friends pc, and booted it to DOS, the driver messages looked very
much to me like they were setting up SCSI stuff...  If you can just pull
off a daughterboard and get SCSI from the parallel zip, that would
be really cool.  If only someone would market SCSI -> IDE interfaces
to seagate/micropolis/quantum/etc. so that we can just pull off the
daughterboard and turn a cheap IDE drive into SCSI :)  
	Anyone care to open their parallel zip and post the results?

Pete Holsberg (pjh@mccc.edu) wrote:
: An interesting thing happened today. I decided to back up
: my nearly-full 850MB HD on an external WangDAT 1300 tape
: via an Adaptec (nee Trantor) MiniSCSI adapter cable,
: something I've done in the past.

: As I alread had a parallel ZIP drive connected to my
: computer's parallel port, I simply connencted the MiniSCSI
: cable to the ZIP's printer port.

: Then, I ran the SCSITEST utility that came with the MinSCSI
: cable.

: Imagine my surprise when it said that it found TWO SCSI
: DEVICES!!! It identified one as
: 	WangDAT 1300, V02.1, sequential access device
: and the other as
: 	IOMEGA ZIP 100 V C.19, direct access device

: What's the significance of this? Is the ZIP really a SCSI
: device with a built in parallel-to-SCSI interface? How hard
: would it be to bypass that interface and get right at the
: SCSI part?

: Thanks,
: Pete

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