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pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:

>In article <1993Jan2.003109.25202@kd4dts.dixie.com> jcw@kd4dts.dixie.com (John C. Wren) writes:
>=Does anyone out here in netland know of a device that would let me connect
>=my laptop (with no expansion slots, but with a parallel port) to the SCSI
>=chain on my '486 so that I can treat the 120mb drive on the laptop as a
>=disk drive on the '486?
>=
>=What I want to accomplish is being able to backup the laptop drive to the
>=tape system on my '486.  It would also be useful for installing software
>=from the CD ROM drive on the '486 onto the laptop.  
>=
>=Any information would be appreciated.

>Don't know if this will work, but you might contact the folks at
>Trantor. They have a parallel-to-SCSI adaptor that works quite well.
>	Trantor Systems, Ltd.
>	5415 Randall Place
>	Fremont CA 94538-3151

    This will give the laptop access to the scsi bus; it will
be able to see the devices in the 486 machine.   The 486 system
will not see the disk in the laptop.   The laptop should be able
to write the tape drive except for one problem.

   Most scsi controllers have their scsi address set to 7.   Since
all scsi addresses must be unique there will be a conflict with
the scsi address of the 486 machine.   If you can solve this
problem it should work.




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