From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 11 11:24:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA09273 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:24:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA09267 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:24:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA11736; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:04:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704111804.LAA11736@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Installation question (2.2.1) To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:04:04 -0700 (MST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, skb@icey.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Warner Losh" at Apr 10, 97 08:29:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In message <199704110024.JAA07373@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Michael Smith writes: > : If you possibly can, avoid purchasing one, or if you have just > : purchased one, try to exchange it for a 'real' SCSI version. > > Rumor has it that you can make the parallel version into the SCSI > version, but I've not met anybody that can confirm this rumor. > Anybody here know? I have a portable SCSI JAZ drive that I use for OS porting to other platforms while leaving their original boot drive contents intact. At $100/1G, it's a good deal for this type of thing (enough room for a NetBSD or OpenBSD kernel tree and a FreeBSD tree at the same time along with X, etc., and I can mount the original drive when I get to the point where it's time to implement the logical to physical translation layer for the native partitioning scheme and load native executables for ABI compatability). It came with a SCSI-to-Parallel converter that has a type 2 SCSI connector on one end and a parallel port on the other end; it's about the size of a standard gender changer. They cost $49 seperately at Egghead software, and are a deal if you have a bunch of SCSI hardware in shoeboxes (like I do) and want to connect a CDROM or a tape drive, or whatever, to a SCSI-challenged machine. I would be very surprised if their "Parallel port" Zip drive did not have the same thing internally, and have a SCSI connector on the drive hardware itself. For $49 (you could probably get a "deal" at the same time you purchase the SCSI Zip drive if you implied the purchase was conditional), it's worth having the SCSI version of the drive instead. The original poster probably *needs* the parallel port feature; all my machines with hard drives (including the Amiga 1000 and the PS/2 machine) are SCSI, so I've never really had to use the thing yet. He may not be as lucky. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.