Re: Parallel ZIP Drive Really SCSI ???

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From: john koblanski
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 01:04

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Pete Holsberg 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

a parallel interface is a parallel interface
i to would like to know whats inside the zip100
i have //port unit and have seen scsi unit 
scsi has two female 25D and two switches ...termination and d6/d7
//port unit comes with scsi software????
who knows wins

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Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 17:04:31 -0800
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